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David Levering Lewis

Autor/a de God's Crucible

21+ obres 3,017 Membres 25 Ressenyes 3 preferits

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David Levering Lewis is the Martin Luther King Professor of History at Rutgers University & was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. "W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919" received the Bancroft, Parkman, & Pulitzer prizes, & was a finalist for the National Book Award & National Book mostra'n més Critics Circle Award. He also wrote "W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader." (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

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It was very in depth, well researched and well written. I should have liked a more personal look, more about his family life, but that might be attributable to the way he lived his life rather than the biographer's choices. His mission was his life.
 
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cspiwak | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Mar 6, 2024 |
Hyperbolic (as the title indicates) and a bit repetitive—party bosses recruited Willkie to combat isolationists in their own party. They didn’t quite succeed, but Lewis argues that Willkie’s prominence at least allowed for a bit of bipartisanship against Nazis before Pearl Harbor.
 
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rivkat | Mar 3, 2023 |
Gathering a representative sampling of the New Negro Movement's most important figures, and providing substantial introductory essays, headnotes, and brief biographical notes, Lewis' volume—organized chronologically—includes the poetry and prose of Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and others.
 
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PendleHillLibrary | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Sep 17, 2022 |
Mr. Lewis has produced a readable book on the effect of the Spanish Islamic community on the more northerly European Countries. He covers the history of that country's caliphate in more detail than normal, and gives a number of illuminating details. The book is useful, and gives a fuller picture of the tensions and advances in the western Mediterranean until the mid-1200's. It is a good place to start further exploration of the question of the interactive effect on the general development of world civilization . Sadly, I note his footnotes and bibliography rely heavily on secondary books and English language translations rather than direct quotations.… (més)
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DinadansFriend | Hi ha 10 ressenyes més | Oct 16, 2021 |

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Obres
21
També de
9
Membres
3,017
Popularitat
#8,463
Valoració
4.1
Ressenyes
25
ISBN
72
Llengües
3
Preferit
3

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