W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963), writer, civil rights activist, scholar,
and editor, is one of the most significant intellectuals in
American history. A founding member of the NAACP, editor for many
years of The Crisis and three other journals, and author of
seventeen books, his writings, speeches, and public debates brought
fundamental changes to American race relations.
David Levering Lewis is Martin Luther King, Jr., University
Professor in the department of history at Rutgers University. He
won Pulitzer prizes for both volumes of his landmark biography of
W.E.B. Du Bois, along with many other awards, including the
Bancroft and Parkman prizes. He lives in Manhattan.
“One hundred years after publication, there is in the entire body of social criticism still no more than a handful of meditations on the promise and failings of democracy in America to rival William Edward Burghardt Du Bois’s extraordinary collection of fourteen essays.” —from the Introduction by David Levering Lewis
"One hundred years after publication, there is in the entire body of social criticism still no more than a handful of meditations on the promise and failings of democracy in America to rival William Edward Burghardt Du Bois's extraordinary collection of fourteen essays." -from the Introduction by David Levering Lewis
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