W. E. B. du Bois A Biography 1868-1963

Name: W. E. B. du Bois A Biography 1868-1963
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ISBN: 9780805088052

ISBN-10: 0805088059

ISBN-13: 9780805088052

Edition: 2009

Authors: David Lewis, Kendra Taira Field

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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…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 8/4/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 912
Size: 6.31" wide x 9.24" long x 1.64" tall
Weight: 2.222
Language: English



Preface



Postlude to the Future



Mary Silvina's Berkshire Prodigy



The Age of Miracles: Fisk and Josie's World



The Age of Miracles: Harvard and Lehrjahre



Wilberforce: Book, Mentor, Marriage



From Philadelphia to Atlanta



Social Science, Tuskegee, and Clashing Temperaments



Going over Niagara, The Souls of Black Folk, and Booker T. Washington



Scholar Behind the Veil and the Birth of the NAACP



NAACP: Rise of the Crisis, Decline of the Wizard



Connections at Home and Abroad



Crises at the Crisis



The Perpetual Dilemma and the Wounded World



The Reason Why



Rearranging Ethiopia Abroad and at Home



Civil Rights by Copyright



The Possibility of Democracy in America



Holding on, Amorously and Angrily



A New Racial Philosophy



Atlanta: The Politics of Knowledge and Soldiering On



Against the Grain: From the NAACP to the Far Left



Exeunt


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index