New York: Dutton (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book by this journalist, who with a bicultural heritage - he was born of an African American mother and Congolese father and reared in California, Boston, Tanzania, and the Congo - which offers an "evenhanded and encyclopedic examination of the facts and fictions that have grown on both sides of the Atlantic." Notes, bibliography, index. xiv, 384 pp. ISBN: 0-525-943870.