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

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Henry Holt and Company, Dec 15, 1994 - Biography & Autobiography - 752 pages

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.

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POSTLUDE TO THE FUTURE
1
MARY SILVINAS GREAT BARRINGTON
11
BERKSHIRE PRODIGY
26
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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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