David levering lewis du bois6/12/2023 More than 70 years ago, Lewis writes, Du Bois predicted two paths for the nation: one based on "freedom and intelligence for all men" and the other in service to "industry determined at any price to amass wealth and power." It's this intimate scholarship of Du Bois - the Massachusetts born sociologist, activist and co-founder of the NAACP - that's caused Lewis to lift a basic criticism Du Bois offered of 1930s America and see how it settles across the landscape of the contemporary, recession-weary U.S. In 2010, President Barack Obama awarded Lewis the National Humanities Medal. Du Bois won the Pulitzer Prize twice, one for each volume. His definitive two volume biography of W.E.B. (AP)ĭavid Levering Lewis is a professor at New York University and one of the nation's pre-eminent historians. Du Bois addresses the World Congress of Partisans of Peace at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, France, April 1949. Facebook Email This article is more than 10 years old.
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