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The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois''s reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War Iand a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers.

When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to close ranks and support the Allied cause in World War I, he made a decision that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Seeking both intellectual clarity and personal atonement, for more than two decades Du Bois attempted to write the definitive history of Black participation in World War I. His book, however, would never be finished. In The Wounded World, Chad L. Williams tells the dramatic story of Du Bois's failed efforts to complete what would have been one of his most significant works. The surprising account of this unpublished book lends new insight into Du Bois's struggles to reckon with both the history and the troubling memory of

The Wounded World

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The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois''s reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War Iand... Read more

    Publisher: Picador
    Publication Date: 4/2/2024
    ISBN13: 9781250321916, 978-1250321916
    ISBN10: 1250321913

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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    The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois''s reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War Iand a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers.

    When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to close ranks and support the Allied cause in World War I, he made a decision that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Seeking both intellectual clarity and personal atonement, for more than two decades Du Bois attempted to write the definitive history of Black participation in World War I. His book, however, would never be finished. In The Wounded World, Chad L. Williams tells the dramatic story of Du Bois's failed efforts to complete what would have been one of his most significant works. The surprising account of this unpublished book lends new insight into Du Bois's struggles to reckon with both the history and the troubling memory of

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