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Significant Books and Music of the Century, Year by Year
1901 was the year that Queen Victoria died, ending a reign of 64 years; President William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist at the World's Fair in Buffalo; and Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States at age 42.


Significant Book of 1901:
Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery

BOOK Booker T. Washington was the most prominent spokesman for African Americans in the post-Reconstruction era, and this autobiography tells of his triumph over the legacy of slavery. "Washington's story of himself, as half-seen by himself, is one of America's most revealing books." --Langston Hughes

  Significant Music of 1901:
 Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony

BOOK Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony was first performed in Munich, Germany. Following the gargantuan, heaven-storming Second and Third Symphonies, the Fourth's neoclassical lyricism took audiences by surprise.




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