W.E.B. Du BoisW.E.B. Du Bois
a Biography
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Book, 2009
Current format, Book, 2009, First Holt paperbacks edition, Available .Book, 2009
Current format, Book, 2009, First Holt paperbacks edition, Available . Offered in 0 more formatsThe two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the civil-rights pioneer--now in one condensed, updated volume--chronicles Du Bois's long and storied career, detailing the momentous contributions to our national character that still echo today and offering over thirty archival photos.
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.Title availability
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