W.E.B. Du Bois: a biography

✍ Scribed by Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt;David Levering Lewis

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 893
Edition: 1st Holt paperbacks ed
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of W. E. B. Du Bois from renowned scholar David Levering Lewis, now in one condensed and updated volume

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois—the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America—was a towering and controversial personality, a fiercely proud individual blessed with the language of the poet and the impatience of the agitator. Now, David Levering Lewis has carved one volume out of his superlative two-volume biography of this monumental figure that set the standard for historical scholarship on this era. In his magisterial prose, Lewis chronicles Du Bois's long and storied career, detailing the momentous contributions to our national character that still echo today.

W.E.B. Du Bois is a 1993 and 2000 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction and the winner of the 1994 and 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

✦ Subjects

African American civil rights workers;African American intellectuals;African Americans;African Americans--Civil rights--History;African Americans--History--1877-1964;Afro-amerikanska intellektuella;Civil rights movements--United States--History;Medborgarrättsrörelser--historia;Biografi;Biography;Du Bois, W. E. B. -- (William Edward Burghardt), -- 1868-1963;Medborgarrättsrörelser -- historia;African Americans -- Biography;African American intellectuals -- Biography;African American civil rights

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