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Frederick Douglass Audiobook
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author McFeely captures the power and the contemplative nature of Douglass, while shedding light on the insecurities and humanity of the man himself. The power of this landmark biography lies in McFeely's ability to bring to life not only the charismatic man, but the age as well-detailing the struggle for emancipation in the political arena as the nation moved toward civil war.
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“Comprehensive, insightful and well-written…deserves a wide readership…because its subject reveals so much about the dramatic complexities of human nature and American history, particularly that large and vexing aspect of our history that is rooted in the race question.”
— Chicago Tribune
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“Succeeds in humanizing one of the most influential blacks of the nineteenth century…has a freshness of fact and boldness of interpretation that is admirable.”
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“Compelling…An engaging and well-written work of literature…What a time. What a book.”
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“Brilliant…Thoroughly engrossing…The most comprehensive work on Douglass to date.”
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“A masterpiece…Will rightfully assume its place as the standard biography of a truly great figure in the nation’s past.”
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“A stunning biography of…one of the giants of nineteenth-century America, a great orator in the age of orators, the creator of a self-portrait that shaped black sensibilities. This illuminating portrait dispenses with the myths.”
— Financial Times (London)
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A 1992 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Biography/Autobiography
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About William McFeely
William S. McFeely is the author of Yankee Stepfather, Frederick Douglass, Sapelo’s People, Proximity to Death, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Grant. He lives in Wellfleet and Cambridge, Massachusetts.