On May 11, 1970, a 23-year-old black man, Henry D. Marrow, ambled to a
small grocery store in Oxford, North Carolina. He exchanged words with the white shopkeeper. Tempers flared. Marrow was shot in the head.
A Local Hero, Opening Big in Harlem
By CLYDE HABERMAN
David Brooks has written a book of cultural anthropology that examines a familiar tribe, middle-class Americans, in an original way.
