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In " Sellout, " Kennedy a Harvard law professor best- known for his 2002 history of the N word investigates another fraught subject: betraying your race.

My Five Most Important Books

1. "The American Political Tradition" by Richard Hofstadter. It ignited my interest in history.

2. "Black Boy" by Richard Wright. It indelibly imprinted on me the horrors my grandparents and parents faced as blacks in the pre-civil-rights Deep South.

3. "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877" by Eric Foner. A magnificent scholarly edifice.

4. "Our Undemocratic Constitution" by Sanford Levinson. A fearless examination of the Constitution by one of the most adventurous (and overlooked) U.S. intellectuals.

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