W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight For Equality And The American Century, 1919-1963
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
Few figures in American history cast as long and as turbulent a shadow as W.E.B. Du Bois — scholar, activist, editor, and architect of the modern Civil Rights movement. This second volume of David Levering Lewis's monumental biography chronicles the final and most consequential decades of Du Bois's extraordinary life, from the aftermath of World War I through his voluntary exile to Ghana, tracing his relentless campaign against racial injustice, his founding of the NAACP's ideological framework, his embrace of Pan-Africanism, and his eventual turn toward socialism in defiance of Cold War America. Lewis writes with the precision of a historian and the narrative power of a master storyteller, presenting a portrait of a man whose intellectual restlessness and moral courage made him simultaneously celebrated and persecuted. This Pulitzer Prize-winning biography forces the reader to confront the paradoxes of American democracy itself — a nation that produced one of its greatest minds, then spent decades trying to silence him. What emerges is not merely the story of one man, but an indispensable reckoning with the soul of a century.
Author: David Levering Lewis
Format: Hardback
Published: 2000, Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
Few figures in American history cast as long and as turbulent a shadow as W.E.B. Du Bois — scholar, activist, editor, and architect of the modern Civil Rights movement. This second volume of David Levering Lewis's monumental biography chronicles the final and most consequential decades of Du Bois's extraordinary life, from the aftermath of World War I through his voluntary exile to Ghana, tracing his relentless campaign against racial injustice, his founding of the NAACP's ideological framework, his embrace of Pan-Africanism, and his eventual turn toward socialism in defiance of Cold War America. Lewis writes with the precision of a historian and the narrative power of a master storyteller, presenting a portrait of a man whose intellectual restlessness and moral courage made him simultaneously celebrated and persecuted. This Pulitzer Prize-winning biography forces the reader to confront the paradoxes of American democracy itself — a nation that produced one of its greatest minds, then spent decades trying to silence him. What emerges is not merely the story of one man, but an indispensable reckoning with the soul of a century.