W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race

by David Levering Lewis

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466841512
Publisher:	Holt Paperbacks
Publication date:	10/16/2025
Sold by:	OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	751
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

David Levering Lewis is the Martin Luther King Jr., chair in the history 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. He and his wife live in Manhattan.