David Levering Lewis
Author of 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 show more Critics Circle Award. He also wrote "W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader." (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by David Levering Lewis
A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress (2003) 53 copies
The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New… (2018) 45 copies
Associated Works
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Contributor — 429 copies
The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing (2011) — Contributor — 33 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1936-05-25
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
- Places of residence
- Stanfordville, New York, USA
- Education
- Fisk University (BA|1956)
Columbia University (MA|1958)
London School of Economics and Political Science (PhD|1962) - Organizations
- American Historical Association
Society for French Historical Studies
American Association of University Professors
Organization of American Historians
African Studies Association
Southern Historical Association (show all 8)
Authors Guild
Phi Beta Kappa - Awards and honors
- National Humanities Medal (2009)
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Reviews
W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 by 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.… (more)
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- Rating
- 4.1
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