Fifty years ago the American Dr. Ralph Bunche received the Nobel Peace Prize for achieving what was considered the impossible: negotiating peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. More impossible, however, is how Bunche managed to attain such heights: African American, son of working–class parents from Detroit, and author of several seminal antifascist and pan–racial tracts of the 1930s, he became not only the first person of color to "cross over" into the white American political establishment, but astonishingly the first ever to win the Nobel Prize. A champion of Third World rights, a prime contributor to the decolonization of Africa, and one of the most respected diplomatic and scholarly minds of the twentieth century, Bunche is little remembered today, a fact which veteran docmaker William Greaves remedies in this admiring, engrossing retelling of a story which now, more than ever, needs to be heard.