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W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race Paperback – December 15, 1994

by David Levering Lewis (Author)

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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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“A remarkable study . . . . Mr. Lewis so vividly evokes the environments that shaped Du Bois that one almost participates in the life.” ―Waldo E. Martin, Jr., The New York Times Book Review

“An engrossing masterpiece . . . . A dazzling feat of scholarship performed with Lewis's customary grace of style.” ―Nell Irvin Painter, The Washington Post Book World

“To say that Lewis's is the finest biography of Du Bois ever written hardly does justice to his performance. Until the publication of this superb new book, Du Bois's life had never received the treatment it deserves.” ―Eric Foner, The Nation

“A marvel of scholarship and discernement. David Levering Lewis's remarkable, stunningly detailed book reshapes our understanding of Du Bois at so many points as to instantly become the standard biography.” ―Martin Bauml Duberman

About the Author

David Levering Lewis is the Martin Luther King Jr., chair in the history at Rutgers University. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Woodrow Wilson International Center, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Educated at Fisk and Columbia Universities and the London School of Economics and Political Science, Professor Lewis is the author of several acclaimed books, including King: A Biography, When Harlem Was in Vogue, The Race to Fashoda. He and his wife live in Manhattan.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Holt Paperbacks; 1st edition (December 15, 1994)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 752 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0805035680
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805035681
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 1.4 x 9.2 inches

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Franklin the Mouse

The Warrior and His Pen

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Sociologist, economist, historian, feminist, propogandist...W.E.B. Du Bois was a man of breathtakingly stellar intellect. He became the leading voice in the struggle for black equality and a glaring refutation, held by most whites, that African-Americans were an inferior race. But along with his huge powers of literary persuasion came a man that was arrogant, childishly egocentric, pompous as well as a subpar husband and father. You can not truly have an appreciation of Black America's struggles after the Civil War without understanding this iconic, heroic figure. His clashes with the black political-heavyweight Booker T. Washington, the founding of the NAACP, the rise of Jim Crow as well as the odious tactics of several U.S. Presidents and white powerbrokers are covered. Mr. Lewis takes great pains to explain the cultural mind-set at important junctures in Mr. Du Bois' life. The author has produced an outstanding, engrossing biography of the subject matter's first fifty-one years. Without a doubt, my next book is Mr. Lewis' follow-up volume dealing with the remainder of Mr. Du Bois' life.

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The product is almost as described. It is overall a good copy but the details neglected to mention that it is a used library copy with the library stamp indicated on the inside. Luckily, there’s no barcode or call number on the spine.

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The Greatness Of the Man Meets The Greatness Of His Biographer

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When one thinks of the scope of American History, there are few names that stand out. Chief among them is a man by the name of William Edward Burghardt DuBois, better known as W.E.B. DuBois. For nearly all of his life, wherever DuBois attended an academic institution, he excelled at the highest levels. Though he was reared in a predominately White town in Massachusetts, his academic gifts were so apparent that the White residents got together and secured funds to send him to college since his single mother was too indigent to do so. Despite the White residents "liberalism," they weren't liberal enough to send him across state, though his academic record qualified him, to enter Harvard. In the eyes of the White townsmen, he was still, "just a Negro," so color prejudice prevented him from attending the school of his choice. So, instead DuBois was sent South to attend the historically Black institution of Fisk University, where he excelled. DuBois, ever the supremely persistent, confident, ambitious person that he was, turned right around and took his behind to his unfinished business of graduating from Harvard, where he was allowed to enter as a junior, and ultimately graduated. He went on to graduate school in Germany, at a time when the University of Berlin was considered several levels above the level of Harvard. Imagine going to Germany, having to speak an unknown foreign tongue, then having to perform in that foreign tongue at what is considered the highest levels of academic life--that is what DuBois did, and once again, he excelled. He did so well, that his fellowship was cut off "because he was receiving (in the eyes of the White Gatekeepers) an education that was too high for a Negro." Oh well, guess what? DuBois would have to settle and compromise. So all he did was become the first African-American to get his PHD in History from Harvard. Some compromise, huh? He would go on to use all of his intellectual gifts to push for full representation for Black People as human beings, in every area of American life. He advocated that we should be allowed to pursue and move in directions wherever our talents took us. He debated this issue with Booker T. Washington who was mainly interested in "Industrial Education." DuBois wound up writing one of the masterpieces in American literary History with his "Souls Of Black Folks." This book, a book filled with cultural and emotional pride, was inspiration for another book found right here on Amazon, called "Reality's Pen: Reflections On Family, History & Culture" by Thomas D. Rush. "Reality's Pen" has several relevant quotations from DuBois, and for anyone who enjoys his life's work, "Reality's Pen" is a treat. Everyone that ever knew him praised him for the supreme loftiness of his intellect. Clearly, if all of DuBois documents were put in one place, they would certainly fill a small library. He was a pioneering sociologist, a productive Historian, a pioneering founder of the NAACP, and articulated, at some point in his life, nearly every conceivable liberation ideology that can be imagined for Black Americans to pursue our human and civil rights. One writer, Arnold Rampersad, in reviewing the life work of DuBois, wrote in his book "The Art & Imagination Of W.E.B. DuBois" the following: "By the time I finished reading the last of his many volumes of history, sociology, biography, autobiography, journalism, and fiction, I knew that I had been privileged to learn from the preeminent mind in black American intellectual history, and most likely, the preeminent mind among all Americans who have pondered the myriad consequences to the nation of its centuries of slavery, segregation and racism." (pg. vi). He goes on to wonder why DuBois would suffer the academic fate from American academia of neglect and insouciance. Throughout his life, DuBois fought tooth and nail against White Supremacy, NEVER accepting it and confidently holding himself, and his people, above the insanity of inferiority, and the equal of any and all human beings. As one Black journalist said of him in this volume of Levering-Lewis', "They could not look at him and call me inferior." (Pg. 3) This book is meticulously researched and written from a sympathetic, sagacious angle, capturing the vast comprehensiveness and brilliance of one of the greatest intellects that America has ever produced. Everything in this book captures the summary of DuBios' life, inherent in the previous quotation by Arnold Rampersad. For those of us with deep respect for DuBois, this volume of Levering-Lewis' 2 volume biography is like a gift from Heaven. There will probably never be a more meticulously written biography of DuBois' life, especially by someone who cares as deeply about DuBois and who writes from such a deep, personal understanding of him. All-in-all, this is an outstanding work written at the highest level of interpretation and scholarship. It is simply a job well done. This book is a gift to the ages and I am thankful for it.

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book arrived looking good but smelling bad with moldy mildew smell.

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The binding, pages and cover are in sound condition but the book has a bad odor of moldy mildew.

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It took me forever to read this biography--of a race--but I was determined to do just that. Du Bois was a person of great influence and his choices I will leave for you to decide. The reading, however, was stilted and I had to put the book down for months at a time because of it. (I've had a stroke.) In all, I thought it was good that I persevered.

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Who can beat a classic read about a profound American scholar?

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Very well written and detailed account. Actually more information and detail than I wanted.

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