The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War

by Chad L. Williams

Book Overview

A Washington Post Notable Book of 2023

The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I--and 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374293155
• ISBN13: 9780374293154
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"