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Author:
Chad L. Williams
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
April 4, 2023
The story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I--and a new understanding of a great twentieth-century writer.
What The Reviewers Say
Deeply researched, crisply written.
A thoughtful look at how even the greatest minds can founder and a tantalizing glimpse of what we missed..
A first-rate intellectual history.
Williams convincingly renders Du Bois as a tragic figure whose optimism was dashed by the intransigence of racism, adding poignancy to a story about the limits and fragility of American democracy. At once a moving character study and a deeply researched look at a dispiriting era from the country’s past, this is history at its most vivid..
