Dudziak effectively assesses Marshall's strengths and weaknesses, as he toggled between helpful advocate and meddling American. When Kenya's government failed to uphold certain rights, Marshall's temper flared. To the country's first president, he shouted at a cocktail party: "I spent all my time busting tail in that wet place in London writing a constitution for you with a bill of rights. . . . Don't go around taking people's property without due process of law!" Marshall also once leaped onto a station wagon to deliver a rousing speech on a street in Nairobi. Dudziak peppers the book with such instances of Marshall's zeal, which helped him achieve some of the greatest civil rights victories of the twentieth century.
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