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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography 1868-1963
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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 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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
- Publish Date: Aug 4th, 2009
- Pages: 912
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.08in - 6.16in - 1.59in - 1.85lb
- EAN: 9780805088052
- Categories: • African American & Black• Historical• Social Activists
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"... this 900-page omnibus is a remarkably told chronicle of the life of W.E.B. Du Bois, the “premier architect of the civil rights movement in America.” With its attention to detail and sweeping historical context, reading it is akin to watching a Ken Burns documentary."
Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.
"What might be gained from an exploration of Du Bois’s early data visualizations, alongside his other speculative endeavors?" Data as Symbolic Form: Datafication and the Imaginary Media of W. E. B. Du Bois by David Bering-Porter from our Winter issue: https://t.co/JP17duKfxe https://t.co/Jv6z47jt8W
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Although W. E. B. Du Bois and Barack Obama differed wildly on questions of race and class, historian David Levering Lewis finds “largely unsuspected parallelism in the racial coming of age of two of the most influential American men of the past 100 years.” https://t.co/40jfvE4C8q
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"... this 900-page omnibus is a remarkably told chronicle of the life of W.E.B. Du Bois, the “premier architect of the civil rights movement in America.” With its attention to detail and sweeping historical context, reading it is akin to watching a Ken Burns documentary."
Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.
"What might be gained from an exploration of Du Bois’s early data visualizations, alongside his other speculative endeavors?" Data as Symbolic Form: Datafication and the Imaginary Media of W. E. B. Du Bois by David Bering-Porter from our Winter issue: https://t.co/JP17duKfxe https://t.co/Jv6z47jt8W