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by: David Levering Lewis
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.04960730092
EAN: 9780805035681
ISBN: 0805035680
Label: Holt Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 752
Publication Date: December 15, 1994
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Sales Rank: 399037
Studio: Holt Paperbacks
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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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Rating: - Not a Gloss
What most impressed me about this very detailed biography was the complete treatment that was given to Du Bois' Communist connections. With the end the the Cold War we have learned conclusively that the Communist Party USA was not the possibly misguided, but good-hearted progressive folks of conventional wisdom. Instead, the CPUSA was a conscious and dedicated tool of Soviet foreign policy.
No one can doubt that Du Bois was a brillant scholar and a careful researcher, at least in his early ... Read More
Rating:  - A Magisterial Study of the Struggles of a Man and His Race
Prior to reading volume one of David Lewis' "W.E.B. Du Bois:Biography of a Race" I was somewhat puzzled by the subtitle. But the significance of the subtitle becomes clear as one progresses through the book because Lewis does a wonderful job of tying Du Bois' life, thought, personality, and political activity to the evolving fortunes of African Americans as a people. Like all great biographies this one places Du Bois squarely in his social and historical environment. The result is that one gains deep ... Read More
Rating:  - thoroughly researched, great subject, but dull reading
I wanted to learn about W.E. B. Dubois and I did --the book is thoroughly researched --but at times there is too much detail; as an example, sometimes DuBois the man seemed hidden in digressions which covered his writings in what seemed to me excessive detail. I admired the work and analysis required to reach this level of specificity but regretted that there was relatively little about his day to day life and that there was not tighter editing and crisper prose.
Rating: - What A Brillant Man
i was floored upon finishing this book.this Man was a pure GENIUS.his IDeas&Structures were Years ahead of the pack.his words were Forerunners for the same problems we face today that he faced back when he was Growing up.his Challenges&Debates were Legendairy.his vision of the world far exceeded any President then or now.his only SIn was his SKin.were if he were WHite he WOuld on a Dollar Bill.his Impact on the world will last till the end of time.
Rating:  - It was really boring
I read this book to suppliment a biographical sketch I was doing on DuBois. This was although one of the most helpful, one of the dryest and most boring books I've ever read. If your going to read this, make sure it's totally of your own free will.
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