Manning Marable is one of America’s most influential and widely read scholars. He was Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University and was formerly the founding director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (Pluto Press, 2000) and Beyond Boundaries (Paradigm, 2011).

PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION Marable's excellent study focuses on the social thought of a major black American thinker who exhibited a "basic coherence and unity" throughout a multifaceted career stressing cultural pluralism, opposition to social inequality, and black pride. Marable characterizes DuBois -- a critic of Booker T. Washington and a founder of the NAACP -- as a social scientist drawn "reluctantly" to politics, which was "inseparable in his mind from moral imperatives." A valuable and useful study recommended for academic and public libraries. Library Journal Marable's biography of Du Bois is the best so far available. It covers, succinctly, Du Bois's extraordinary life; in doing so, the volume makes a significant contribution to the history of modern civilization. Dr. Herber Aptheker, Editor, The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois A provocative and insightful introduction to Du Bois Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Professor of History and Law, Howard University

• Reconstructing the Radical Du Bois; 1: A Great Ambition; 2: The Ivory Tower of Race; 3: Tuskegee and the Niagara Movement: From Scholar to Activist; 4: The Crisis and the NAACP: Social Reform in the Progressive Era; 5: Pan-Africanism, Socialism, and Garveyism; 6: The New Negro; 7: The Great Depression and World War; 8: The Politics of Peace; 9: Stem Prophet, Flaming Angel

Manning Marable is one of America’s most influential and widely read scholars. He was Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University and was formerly the founding director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (Pluto Press, 2000) and Beyond Boundaries (Paradigm, 2011).

PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION Marable's excellent study focuses on the social thought of a major black American thinker who exhibited a "basic coherence and unity" throughout a multifaceted career stressing cultural pluralism, opposition to social inequality, and black pride. Marable characterizes DuBois -- a critic of Booker T. Washington and a founder of the NAACP -- as a social scientist drawn "reluctantly" to politics, which was "inseparable in his mind from moral imperatives." A valuable and useful study recommended for academic and public libraries. Library Journal Marable's biography of Du Bois is the best so far available. It covers, succinctly, Du Bois's extraordinary life; in doing so, the volume makes a significant contribution to the history of modern civilization. Dr. Herber Aptheker, Editor, The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois A provocative and insightful introduction to Du Bois Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Professor of History and Law, Howard University

• Reconstructing the Radical Du Bois; 1: A Great Ambition; 2: The Ivory Tower of Race; 3: Tuskegee and the Niagara Movement: From Scholar to Activist; 4: The Crisis and the NAACP: Social Reform in the Progressive Era; 5: Pan-Africanism, Socialism, and Garveyism; 6: The New Negro; 7: The Great Depression and World War; 8: The Politics of Peace; 9: Stem Prophet, Flaming Angel

Manning Marable is one of America’s most influential and widely read scholars. He was Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University and was formerly the founding director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (Pluto Press, 2000) and Beyond Boundaries (Paradigm, 2011).

PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION Marable's excellent study focuses on the social thought of a major black American thinker who exhibited a "basic coherence and unity" throughout a multifaceted career stressing cultural pluralism, opposition to social inequality, and black pride. Marable characterizes DuBois -- a critic of Booker T. Washington and a founder of the NAACP -- as a social scientist drawn "reluctantly" to politics, which was "inseparable in his mind from moral imperatives." A valuable and useful study recommended for academic and public libraries. Library Journal Marable's biography of Du Bois is the best so far available. It covers, succinctly, Du Bois's extraordinary life; in doing so, the volume makes a significant contribution to the history of modern civilization. Dr. Herber Aptheker, Editor, The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois A provocative and insightful introduction to Du Bois Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Professor of History and Law, Howard University

• Reconstructing the Radical Du Bois; 1: A Great Ambition; 2: The Ivory Tower of Race; 3: Tuskegee and the Niagara Movement: From Scholar to Activist; 4: The Crisis and the NAACP: Social Reform in the Progressive Era; 5: Pan-Africanism, Socialism, and Garveyism; 6: The New Negro; 7: The Great Depression and World War; 8: The Politics of Peace; 9: Stem Prophet, Flaming Angel