A wonderful telling of an extraordinary life. It is very detailed and therefore sometimes seems over long. A great broad sweep of many important time periods in US history that still echo today...and the facinating life that spanned them
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by David W. Blight
A wonderful telling of an extraordinary life. It is very detailed and therefore sometimes seems over long. A great broad sweep of many important time periods in US history that still echo today...and the facinating life that spanned them
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** “Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.
V. E. Schwab
