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Paul Robeson

by Martin Duberman · 2014

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Passionate, enormously talented, and, at times, seemingly larger than life, Paul Robeson lived one of the great lives of the twentieth century. Martin Duberman's classic biography, reissued by The New Press, offers a monumental and powerfully affecting portrait of one of this century's most notable performers, political radicals, and champions of racial equality.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
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musicmusicMore like thisLess of thisAfrican AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of thisraceraceMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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epic · 880 pages

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