mr. meredith and his counsel at the naacp. you will find real examples, concrete evidence of the opposition that he faced. the third section of the book deals with several attempts to the rest james meredith from the university and one instance in jackson and how they failed. the longest chapter in the book on the riot, that is the most famous event in western mississippi history. probably to the lynching. there are two chapters that nothing else has ever done. that is described james meredith's ten -- the ordeal he went through. put the opposition on campus and how he was able to persevere. anybody reading those two chapters will almost have to come away. i don't say this in the book but most come away if -- how did the man do it? how did he persist through all the difficulties for so long? such a hostile environment? one of the chapter titles is a prisoner in a strange land. the final chapter that examines the controversy over the debate that occurred in mississippi across the nation about who caused the riots and what happen

mr. meredith's enrollment at the university was followed by a riot, and president kennedy sent soldiers intoon, mississippi, hosts the 25-minute event. >> we thank everyone else for coming. i have a couple of confessions to make at first. one is i'm not a public speaker. this is a foreign environment for me. so whatever your expectations are, i hope they're met, but i won't be surprised. second, i don't go to book signings as a general rule, so i have no idea what goes on at these. so i'm going to do what i feel comfortable doing, and i hope it works. however this turns out, i will make one guarantee and that is that the book is better than the presentation. [laughter] so i guess the moral is so far don't judge a book by its author. [laughter] probably the first question some people ask is why do we need another book about james meredith and the riot at ole miss in 1962? when i started working on this book about 1991 and not working intensely, but that was when i first started playing with the topic, there were already four books out. this book is published in 2009, and there are in the inte