Darren Walker needed to be convinced of his new book's relevance.
The outgoing Ford Foundation president feared that “The Idea of America," set to publish in September just before he leaves the nonprofit, risked feeling disjointed. In more than eight dozen selected texts dating back to 2013, he reflects on everything from his path as a Black, gay child from rural Texas into the halls of premiere American philanthropies to his solutions for reversing the deepening inequality of our “new Gilded Age."
