RaveThe New York Review of BooksIn the first volume of his biography, Lewis interpreted Du Bois’s sense of doubleness or duality not as a contradiction to be overcome but as a permanent condition that could be a source of strength and creativity ... The conclusion one draws from Lewis’s first volume, therefore, is that Du Bois was intent on finding a middle ground between black separatism, or what today would be called “Afrocentrism,” and straightforward integration or assimilation ... One of the finest biographies that this country has produced.
Steven Hahn
RaveThe NationSteven Hahn’s A Nation Under Our Feet is the most comprehensive account yet of black politics in the rural South before, during and after the Civil War ... One of the most important works in American social history to appear in recent years ... There is massive evidence in the book of such interclass white solidarity, but it is not analyzed or explained ... But whatever one concludes about Hahn’s underlying assumptions and conceptual boundaries, this book remains a major achievement and a landmark in African-American history.
