![]() ![]() Reed’s command as a scholar and a polemicist holds the reader’s attention throughout this compact book. ![]() Du Bois and American Political Thought, Adolph Reed, Jr., attempts to explain the logic of Du Bois’s political thought and his status as a model for black intellectuals. But it does not explain why Du Bois remains the iconic black intellectual. All this justifies the attention Du Bois’s life and writings have received in recent years. Since his death in 1963, no black intellectual has acquired the authoritative stature of Du Bois. Few observations made during our century have been so prescient as Du Bois’s well-known 1903 declaration, “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” Few monographs have challenged and redirected American historical inquiry as did Black Reconstruction in 1935. Du Bois’s productive use of his ninety-five years on earth casts a vigilant shadow over anyone who thinks about the political dimensions of the black experience. ![]()
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