The two time Pulitzer Prize winning biography of W E B Du Bois from renowned scholar David Levering Lewis, now in one condensed and updated volume.

"A John Macrae/Holt paperback." Condensed and updated ed. of: 2 vol. set, originally published 1993-2000.

Postlude to the Future -- Mary Silvina's Berkshire Prodigy -- The Age of Miracles: Fisk and Josie's World -- The Age of Miracles: Harvard and Lehrjahre -- Wilberforce: Book, Mentor, Marriage -- From Philadelphia to Atlanta -- Social Science, Tuskegee, and Clashing Temperaments -- Going over Niagara, The Souls of Black Folk, and Booker T. Washington -- Scholar Behind the Veil and the Birth of the NAACP -- NAACP: Rise of the Crisis, Decline of the Wizard -- Connections at Home and Abroad -- Crises at the Crisis -- The Perpetual Dilemma and the Wounded World -- The Reason Why -- Rearranging Ethiopia Abroad and at Home -- Civil Rights by Copyright -- The Possibility of Democracy in America -- Holding on, Amorously and Angrily -- A New Racial Philosophy -- Atlanta: The Politics of Knowledge and Soldiering On -- Against the Grain: From the NAACP to the Far Left.