Negro with a Hat: the Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey - Colin Grant - Libros - Oxford University Press - 9780195393095 - 2 de marzo de 2010
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Colin Grant
Negro with a Hat: the Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey

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New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer of Lenin, and a dandy given to elaborate public displays. Above all, he was a shrewd promoter whose use of pageantry evoked a lost African civilization and fired the imagination of his followers. Negro With a Hat restores Garvey to his place as one of the founders of black nationalism and a key figure of the 20th century. "A searching, vivid, and (as the title suggests) complex account of Garvey's short but consequential life." -Steve Hahn, The New Republic "The story of Marcus Garvey, the charismatic and tireless black leader who had a meteoric rise and fall in the late 1910s and early '20s, makes for enthralling reading, and Garvey has found an engaging and objective biographer in Colin Grant. . . . Grant's book is not all politics, ideology, money and lawsuits. It is also an engrossing social history. . . . Negro With a Hat is an achievement on a scale Garvey might have appreciated." --New York Times Book Review "Dazzling, definitive biography of the controversial activist who led the 1920s 'Back to Africa' movement. . . . Grant's learned passion for his subject shimmers on every page. A riveting and well-wrought volume that places Garvey solidly in the pantheon of important 20th-century black leaders." -Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "This splendid book is certain to become the definitive biography. Garvey was a dreamer and a doer; Grant captures the fascination of both." -Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Grant's strength lies in his ability to re-create political moods and offer compel

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Publicado 2 de marzo de 2010
ISBN13 9780195393095
Editores Oxford University Press
Páginas 544
Dimensiones 215 × 231 × 29 mm   ·   771 g
Lengua Inglés  

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