'A must read for anyone interested in the life and work of this pioneering Black revolutionary'
People's World 'An accessible and valuable work'
Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch 'Bill Mullen's illuminating biography is essential for understanding the political, personal, and intellectual challenges Du Bois faced in his lifetime search for a black revolutionary praxis'
Mary Helen Washington, Professor of ... Read moreEnglish at the University of Maryland, author of The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s (Columbia University Press, 2014) 'This is Marxist biography at its finest. 'W.E.B. Du Bois' is the rare scholarly book that evokes the feeling that our own moment of radical challenge reverberates with the trials of another century, but Mullen proposes an internationalist perspective that re-enchants the story of this activist-intellectual with immediacy'
Alan Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor (Emeritus), University of Michigan, author of the American Literary Left Trilogy (UNC Press) Show Less