W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
8 best books like W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 (David Levering Lewis): The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Up from Slavery, Master of the Senate, My Bondage and My Freedom, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, The Mis-Education of the Negro, Edith Wharton, President James Buchanan: A Biography
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister....
| Author | Booker T. Washington |
| ISBN | 0451527542 |
Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work for the betterment of African Americans in the post Reconstruction period.
"Up From Slavery" is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington's life and work, which...
| Author | Robert A. Caro |
| ISBN | 0394720954 |
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most august and revered...
| Author | Frederick Douglass |
| ISBN | 0140439188 |
Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Douglass into the international spotlight as the foremost spokesman for American blacks, both...
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
| Author | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
| ISBN | 1579124496 |
Written by one of our foremost historians and published in 1965, A Thousand Days is still considered the most complete and definitive portrait of John F. Kennedy and his administration. Handpicked by Kennedy to serve as special assistant to the president, historian and Harvard professor Arthur M....
The Mis-Education of the Negro
| Author | Carter G. Woodson |
| ISBN | 1564110419 |
The Mis-Education of the Negro is one of the most important books on education ever written. Carter G. Woodson shows us the weakness of Euro-centric based curriculums that fail to include African American history and culture. This system mis-educates the African American student, failing to prepare...
| Author | R.W.B. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0880640200 |
This biography of Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes when it came out. And I am only on p. 31 at this moment, but I am already finding a lot of thud moments in the writing. His big interpretations seem labored, prosaic, and debatable. I am simultaneously reading Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary...
| 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;...
