Black Bourgeoisie

6 best books like Black Bourgeoisie (E. Franklin Frazier): Marie Antoinette: The Journey, The Souls of Black Folk, A Lesson Before Dying, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, President James Buchanan: A Biography, A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

Author	Antonia Fraser
ISBN	0307277747

Brilliantly written, a work of impeccable scholarship. An utterly riveting and intensely moving book by one of our finest biographers.

Never before has the life of Marie Antoinette been told so intimately and with such authority as in Antonia Fraser's newest work, Marie Antoinette: The...

The Souls of Black Folk

Author

W.E.B. Du Bois

This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently...

A Lesson Before Dying

Author	Ernest J. Gaines
ISBN	0375702709

A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university,...

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

Author	Gordon S. Wood
ISBN	0143035282

From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career...

President James Buchanan: A Biography

Author	Philip Shriver Klein
ISBN	0945707118

The life of James Buchanan is in essence the story of a man who declined to be a dictator. Republics are traditionally ungrateful, and in Buchanan's case the American republic has been notoriously thankless to the man who was, from log cabin to White House, the relentless foe of fanatics and demagogues;...

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

Author	Jimmy Soni
ISBN	1476766681

The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon—the neglected architect of the Information Age, whose insights stand behind every computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded.

Claude Shannon was a groundbreaking polymath,...