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W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1919

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W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1919

By: David Levering Lewis
Narrated by: Courtney B. Vance
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First time on audio! The timeless Pulitzer Prize winner, the first in an epic two-volume biography that set the standard for historical scholarship on this era, narrated by Emmy and Tony Award winner Courtney B. Vance.

This monumental biography by David Levering Lewis—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 W.E.B. Du Bois changed forever the way Americans think about themselves.

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. In the first of his superlative two-volume biography, renowned scholar David Levering Lewis chronicles the first five decades of Du Bois’s long and storied life, detailing in magisterial prose the momentous contributions to our national character that still echo today.

©1994 David Levering Lewis (P)2025 Simon & Schuster Audio
African American Studies Americas Cultural & Regional Historical Social Sciences Specific Demographics United States
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