David Levering Lewis

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W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963

David Levering Lewis

The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize—winning biography that The Washington Post hailed as “an engrossing masterpiece”

Charismatic, singularly determined, and controversial, W.E.B. Du Bois was a historian, novelist, editor, sociologist, founder of the NAACP, advocate of women’s rights, and the premier architect of the Civil Rights movement. His hypnotic voice thunders out of David Levering Lewis’s monumental biography like a locomotive under full steam.

This second volume of what is already a classic work begins with the triumphal return from WWI…

 

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

David Levering Lewis

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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