"Some people have the good -- or, more often, bad -- fortune of living lives that reveal the larger human story. Greg Jordan certainly found one such character in Willie Mays Aikens, and then held on tight for years, to unearth -- through a kind of fierce, reportorial empathy -- every astonishing twist and step and slide. The result: an amazing tapestry of dream, nightmare and redemption, cheers and tears, marked 'America.'" -- Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Confidence Men and A Hope in the Unseen.