It used to be simple: we are us, they are them. And even now, for many, that remains true. We (a country, a confession, a nation, a corporation), of course, are better, while they (a corporation, a nation, a confession, a country), of course, are worse. Bitter, but useful to realize how it happened to many of the heroes of this book—that we are them, and they are us. No one is better or worse, but often, too often, they are alien, lonely, and—traditionally—humiliated and insulted…