The 14 members of the Duke Summer Reading program selection committee reached a unanimous decision Wednesday, choosing "The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South" by Osha Gray Davidson for the Class of 2011 to read next August.

"This is the quintessential Duke summer reading book," said junior Bronwyn Lewis, First-year Advisory Council co-chair and member of the selection committee. "For one thing, it has a local color and a local flavor that previous summer reading books have not had. It will give incoming freshmen what the historical context of their next four years is coming to."

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