David W. Blight is the Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era; and Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory; and annotated editions of Douglass’s first two autobiographies. He has worked on Douglass much of his professional life, and been awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize, among others.
“Cinematic and deeply engaging. . . . a tour de force of
storytelling.”
*The New York Times Book Review*
"Absorbing and even moving . . . Mr. Blight displays his lifelong
interest in Douglass on almost every page, and his own voice is
active and eloquent throughout the narrative. It is a book that
speaks to our own time as well as Douglass’s. . . . A brilliant
book.”
*The Wall Street Journal*
“The first major biography of Douglass in nearly three decades. . .
. Blight isn’t looking to overturn our understanding of Douglass,
whose courage and achievements were unequivocal, but to complicate
it — a measure by which this ambitious and empathetic biography
resoundingly succeeds.”
*The New York Times*
“Extraordinary. . . . Blight has certainly written, in the book’s
texture and density and narrative flow—one violent and provocative
incident arriving right after another—a great American
biography."
*The New Yorker*
“A consistently engrossing book that is likely to remain the
definitive account of Douglass’s life for many years to come.”
*The Nation*
“A stunning achievement. Blight captures an icon in full
humanity. From riveting drama in slavery and Civil War, his
Douglass rises into clairvoyant genius on the blinkered centrality
of race in our struggle for freedom.”
*Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of America in the
King Years*
“Extraordinary. . . . In Blight’s pages, [Douglass’s] voice again
rings out loud and clear, melancholy and triumphant — still
prophesying, still agitating, still calling us to action.”
*The Washington Post*
“David Blight has written the definitive biography of
Frederick Douglass. With extraordinary detail he illuminates
the complexities of Douglass’s life and career and paints
a powerful portrait of one of the most important American
voices of the 19th century. . . . Magisterial.”
*The Boston Globe*
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