Twice Over a Man: A Fierce Memoir of an Orphan Boy Who Doggedly Determined a Finer Life Public Policy City Planning & Urban Development describing in strikingly personal detail Max Axiom describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil Walking with the Wind is one of our most important records of the American Civil Rights Movement But he rose above it all to become a prosperous leader in the Saint Louis business and nonprofit communities Born in East Saint Louis to a drug addicted mother who died when he was eight years old