Fourth Down and Twenty Five Years to Go

In a book that is destined to generate heated debate and social analysis, noted
sports attorney Donald Maurice Jackson attacks the high incidence of
criminality and irresponsible conduct among African American athletes as
well as the root causes of their inappropriate behavior. Discrimination,
selectively harsh treatment, outright racism, irresponsible conduct, breakdown
in the African American family.which factor most frequently lands African
American athletes behind bars? From youth leagues to colleges, from high
schools to professional sports leagues, Jackson attacks these issues head on
and dispenses blame where blame is due. His exhaustive research and unique
knowledge of sports results in a work that will have lasting relevance in the
sports world.

This hard hitting book exposes the underbelly of the sports world and the all
too common consequences felt by African American athletes that are all too
often entirely unprepared to deal with the consequences of their stardom. Are
the "perpetrators" in effect "victims" of their own fame?

Fourth Down and Twenty Five Years to Go is a groundbreaking and exhaustive
look into the links between athletic stardom, RACE, fame, money and the
legal system. The findings are alarming.
Is America ready for a book that looks so intensely, so honestly-so uniquely-at the
issues of race, media and sport? Thanks to Don Jackson, we're all about to find out.

-Gregg Doyel, National Columnist, CBS Sportsline.com