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Paul Robeson: A Biography (Lives of the Left Series) » (Bargain)
Authors: Martin Duberman
ISBN-13: 9780641999154, ISBN-10: 0641999151
Format: Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: May 2005
Edition: Bargain
Author Biography: Martin Duberman
Book Synopsis
A new paperback edition of Duberman's classic biography on one of the truly great lives of the 20th century.
Table of Contents
| Preface | xi | |
| Chapter 1 | Boyhood (1898-1914) | 3 |
| Chapter 2 | Rutgers College (1915-1918) | 19 |
| Chapter 3 | Courtship and Marriage (1919-1921) | 31 |
| Chapter 4 | Provincetown Playhouse (1922-1924) | 47 |
| Chapter 5 | The Harlem Renaissance and the Spirituals (1924-1925) | 68 |
| Chapter 6 | The Launching of a Career (1925-1927) | 87 |
| Chapter 7 | Show Boat (1927-1929) | 109 |
| Chapter 8 | Othello (1930-1931) | 128 |
| Chapter 9 | The Discovery of Africa (1932-1934) | 156 |
| Chapter 10 | Berlin, Moscow, Films (1934-1937) | 184 |
| Chapter 11 | The Spanish Civil War and Emergent Politics (1938-1939) | 215 |
| Chapter 12 | The World at War (1940-1942) | 233 |
| Chapter 13 | The Broadway Othello (1942-1943) | 263 |
| Chapter 14 | The Apex of Fame (1944-1945) | 280 |
| Chapter 15 | Postwar Politics (1945-1946) | 296 |
| Chapter 16 | The Progressive Party (1947-1948) | 316 |
| Chapter 17 | The Paris Speech and After (1949) | 336 |
| Chapter 18 | Peekskill (1949) | 363 |
| Chapter 19 | The Right to Travel (1950-1952) | 381 |
| Chapter 20 | Confinement (1952-1954) | 404 |
| Chapter 21 | Breakdown (1955-1956) | 429 |
| Chapter 22 | Resurgence (1957-1958) | 446 |
| Chapter 23 | Return to Europe (1958-1960) | 465 |
| Chapter 24 | Broken Health (1961-1964) | 498 |
| Chapter 25 | Attempted Renewal (1964-1965) | 522 |
| Chapter 26 | Final Years (1966-1976) | 539 |
| Acknowledgments | 553 | |
| Note on Sources | 557 | |
| Notes | 565 | |
| Index | 765 |
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