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

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

By David Levering Lewis
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“Courtney B. Vance makes this biography of pioneering Black sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois highly accessible. The work is still long and detailed, but Vance’s pace and tone keep it from seeming tedious. He varies his voice to suit the material…This audiobook does justice to the man, and Vance’s narration does justice to the book. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award

First time on audio! The timeless Pulitzer Prize winner, the first in an epic two-volume biography that set the standard for historical scholarship on this era, narrated by Emmy and Tony Award winner Courtney B. Vance.

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.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois—the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America—was a towering and controversial personality, a fiercely proud individual blessed with the language of the poet and the impatience of the agitator. In the first of his superlative two-volume biography, renowned scholar David Levering Lewis chronicles the first five decades of Du Bois’s long and storied life, detailing in magisterial prose the momentous contributions to our national character that still echo today.