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This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. Hailed at the time, Black Reconstruction in America has justly been called a classic.
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“Du Bois is now recognized as one of the greatest publicly engaged intellectuals in American history…in a class with Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, and John Dewey.”
— New York Review of Books, praise for the author
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“Remarkable…Extraordinary.”
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“Written with great eloquence and earnestness, and based upon wide scholarship and careful documentation.”
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“An extremely valuable contribution to the history of the reconstruction legislatures…[Du Bois] has approached the whole problem from a new and original point of view.”
— Saturday Review of Literature
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A PBS Pick of Books about Reconstruction
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A Huffington Post Best Book about Anti-Racism & Activism
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About W. E. B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963) was a sociologist, historian, novelist, activist, and one of the greatest African American intellectuals. His astounding career spanned the nation’s history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, he penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work; its insights into black life at the turn of the century still ring true.
About Mirron Willis
Mirron Willis—actor of film, stage, and television—is the winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration in 2012 and a finalist for the Audie in 2015, as well as the winner of four AudioFile Earphones Awards for his audiobook recordings. He has worked extensively in film and television and on stage with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Houston Shakespeare Festival, and the Ensemble Theatre, among others. He has recorded some 150 audiobooks, including the Smokey Dalton series by Kris Nelscott and My Song by Harry Belafonte. He resides and records audiobooks on his family’s historic ranch in East Texas.