A story about the Civil Rights movement focuses on a leader who is assassinated, his relationships with his Black wife and white assistant, and one of his followers. There is a very disturbing rape scene.
A quote I liked:
"But those were the days when the media at least still understood the distinction between private and public. Those were the days when a man could act with integrity in the public arena while his private life was a paradigm of immorality." (p. 66) ( )