David Levering Lewis
Autor(a) de God's Crucible
About the Author
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 mostrar mais Critics Circle Award. He also wrote "W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader." (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por David Levering Lewis
A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress (2003) 51 exemplares
The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New… (2018) 44 exemplares
African-American Communists and the Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement: The Role of the Southern Black (2009) 3 exemplares
Good masters! Sweet Ladies! 1 exemplar
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography 1868-1963 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Contribuidor — 429 exemplares
Chariot in the Sky: A Story of the Jubilee Singers (1951) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 62 exemplares
The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing (2011) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1936-05-25
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
- Locais de residência
- Stanfordville, New York, USA
- Educação
- Fisk University (BA|1956)
Columbia University (MA|1958)
London School of Economics and Political Science (PhD|1962) - Organizações
- American Historical Association
Society for French Historical Studies
American Association of University Professors
Organization of American Historians
African Studies Association
Southern Historical Association (mostrar todos 8)
Authors Guild
Phi Beta Kappa - Prémios e menções honrosas
- National Humanities Medal (2009)
Membros
Críticas
W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 por David Levering Lewis
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.
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.
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.
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.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 21
- Also by
- 9
- Membros
- 3,039
- Popularidade
- #8,403
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 25
- ISBN
- 72
- Línguas
- 3
- Marcado como favorito
- 3