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W. E. B. Du Bois

Name: W. E. B. Du Bois
Author: David Levering Lewis
ISBN: 9780805032642

by David Levering Lewis

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Overview

The essential writings of Du Bois have been selected and edited by David Levering Lewis, his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer.

About the Author, David Levering Lewis

David Levering Lewis is the Martin Luther King Jr., University Professor in the history department 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, and his two-volume Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of W.E.B. Du Bois. He and his wife live in Manhattan.

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Library Journal

In his introduction to this anthology of Du Bois's writings, editor Lewis (W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919, LJ 11/1/93) continues to offer insights into the political life of a man considered the premier architect of Civil Rights in the United States. He focuses on four turning points in Du Bois's life-his relationship with Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey; his departure from the NAACP; his quest for foundation money to launch an encyclopedia; and his turn to the Left. The pieces in this collection are drawn from Du Bois's books, commencement addresses, and magazine articles. They provide a good supplement to Lewis's biography. [For another perspective on this scholar-activist, see LJ's roundup on Du Bois, "W.E.B. Du Bois: A Century of Conscience," LJ 8/93, p. 122-123.]-Ann Burns, "Library Journal"