Harry Belafonte is not just one of the greatest entertainers of our time  he has led one of the great American lives of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Now  at last  this extraordinary icon tells us about it all--his poverty-ridden childhoodin Harlem and Jamaica  his meteoric rise to become one of the world's most popular singers  breaking down racial barriers that no one had broken before  achieving equal popularity with white and black audiences  his lifelong  passionate involvement at the heart of the civil rights movement and countless other political and social causes