W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race

Name: W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

David Lewis

Dec 1994 · Sold by Holt Paperbacks

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752

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About this ebook

This monumental biography by David Levering Lewis--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how W.E.B. Du Bois changed forever the way Americans think about themselves.

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5.0

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Michael McCoy

May 19, 2018

An excellent read. With a great grasp of the man and his period.

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About the author

David Levering Lewis is the Martin Luther King Jr., chair in the history at Rutgers University. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Woodrow Wilson International Center, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Educated at Fisk and Columbia Universities and the London School of Economics and Political Science, Professor Lewis is the author of several acclaimed books, including King: A Biography, When Harlem Was in Vogue, The Race to Fashoda. He and his wife live in Manhattan.

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