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The Leonard Lopate Show / February 11, 2009 / Up From History

Up From History

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

In the early 1890s, Booker T. Washington was "the most famous and respected black man in America." Yet by the end of the decade he was widely caricatured and mocked until his death in 1915. Robert Norrell asks us to rethink Washington and his achievments with his new biography Up From History.


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  • [1] Mickey Bitsko from Downtown Manhattan February 11, 2009 - 12:47PM

    I ordered this book from the library after reading The NY Review of Books' rave review. Sounds very good.

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