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Black Reconstruction in America (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois) - An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor); W. E. B. Du Bois; David Levering Lewis (Introduction by)
Category: History
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological ...Show more
God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by David Levering Lewis
Category: History
At the beginning of the eighth century, the Arabs brought a revolution in power, religion and culture to Dark Ages Europe. David Levering Lewis' panoramic history begins with the fall of the Persian and Roman empires, followed by the rise of the prophet Muhammad and the creation of Muslim Spain. Five ce ...Show more
God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by David Levering Lewis
Category: History
The Improbable Wendell Willkie - The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order by David Levering Lewis
Category: Politics
In the wake of one of the most tumultuous Republican conventions ever, the party of Lincoln nominated in 1940 a prominent businessman and former Democrat who could have saved America's sclerotic political system. Although Wendell Lewis Willkie would lose to FDR, acclaimed biographer David Levering Lewis ...Show more
When Harlem Was in Vogue by Lewis David Levering
Category: Popular History
"A major study...one that thorougly interweaves the philosophies and fads, the people and movements that combined to give a small segment of Afro America a brief place in the sun."--The New York Times Book Review.
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