In Depth: David Levering Lewis
Upcoming Schedule
- Sunday, February 3, at 12:00 PM
- Monday, February 4, at 12:00 AM
- Saturday, February 9, at 9:00 AM
- Monday, February 11, at 3:00 AM
About the Program
David Levering Lewis joins Book TV for a live, In Depth interview on Sunday, February 3. Mr. Levering Lewis is the author of two biographies of W.E.B. Du Bois, "W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race" and "W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963" that have each won the Pulitzer Prize for biography. He is the author and editor of several other books, including "King: A Biography," "The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader," "When Harlem Was in Vogue" and his most recently published title "God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215." David Levering Lewis is currently a history professor at New York University.
About the Author
David Levering Lewis is the author of "King: A Biography," "Prisoners of Honor: The Dreyfus Affair," "District of Columbia: A Bicentennial History," "When Harlem Was in Vogue," "The Race for Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africa," "W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919," "W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963," and "God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215." Mr. Levering Lewis is the editor of "The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader," and "W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader."
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Will have to see if I can
Will have to see if I can catch this (I don't have cable but my daughter does). I recently found out, through delving into all this family history stuff, that one of my great uncles, Thomas J. Calloway, was a friend of Du Bois' from the time they were at Fisk together, and worked with him from time to time. As well as with Booker T, who most of the rest of the family seems to have been involved with. Some of this (about him and Du Bois) I found out from one of Levering Lewis' books, in fact - portions of which are viewable online.
There must have been interesting family conversations as Thomas seems to have floated somewhere between the two and their ways of viewing things (if I have my timelines right, which is never a surety), whereas my great grandfather (his brother) seems to have gone whole hog for the Booker T philosophy, even going so far as to head off to Togo, Africa (for the Tuskegee Institute) to teach them how to plant cotton and to help colonize the area for the Germans.
Sigh :(
Also, this month should be
Also, this month should be better, intrapolitics wise. Between flu, dead computers and moving, January was the pits.
Any thoughts on the
Any thoughts on the interview?