Examines the life and career of Grenville Clark. As a member of the "Corporation”, Harvard's elite governing board, Clark wrote an important treatise on academic freedom. He fought a successful public battle with his friend President Franklin Roosevelt over FDR's attempt to "pack” the Supreme Court. He worked closely with the NAACP to uphold civil rights for African Americans during the tumultuous 1950s and'60s.

Nancy Peterson Hill is a writer and Administrator of Diastole Scholars' Center, a nonprofit conference center, art gallery, and event space affiliated with the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She also serves on the board of the Edgar Snow Memorial Foundation, a U.S./China friendship group and is active in cross-cultural activities in Kansas City and China. She lives with her husband, Larry, and her enthusiastic Giant Schnauzer, Hu-Too, in Kansas City, Missouri.