W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
by David Leverin Lewis
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780805035681 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Now in paperback, this Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and National Book Award Finalist presents the life story of the towering and controversial civil rights leader, focusing on a crucial 50 year period in his--and the nation's--life. "An engrossing masterpiece".--Washington Post Book World.
Synopsis:
This monumental biography--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 Du Bois changed forever the way Americans think about themselves.
Description:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-701) and index. "Selected writings of W.E.B. Du Bois": p. 703-708.
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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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780805035681
- Subtitle:
- Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- John MacRae Books
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- People of Color
- Subject:
- Biography
- Subject:
- History
- Subject:
- African American Studies - History
- Subject:
- United States - General
- Subject:
- Afro-americans
- Subject:
- African American Studies
- Subject:
- Civil rights workers
- Subject:
- Du bois, w. e. b. (william edward burghardt),
- Subject:
- African Americans
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements
- Subject:
- Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor
- Subject:
- cultural heritage
- Copyright:
- 2000
- Edition Number:
- 1st Owl book ed.
- Series Volume:
- DR 92-05
- Publication Date:
- December 1994
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 735
- Dimensions:
- 9.22x6.15x1.36 in. 1.60 lbs.










