Politics & Prose: A Smashing Bio
“Use whatever winning sports analogy you want to describe this smashing bio of Althea Gibson… Sally H. Jacobs serves up a damning commentary on how the economic structure and inherent racism of competitive tennis in the 1950s and 1960s prevented Althea from being a household name like the Williams sisters, Arthur Ashe, Billie Jean King, Coco Graff or any other stars of the court you know now.”