num_pages: 804
description: Passionate and enormously talented, Paul Robeson lived one of the great lives of the twentieth century. Martin Duberman's classic biography is a monumental and powerfully affecting portrait of one of this century's most notable performers, political radicals, and champions of racial equality.Drawing on a vast archive of family papers and interviews with friends and relatives as well as FBI files, Paul Robeson charts the heroic and tragic course of Robeson's from his early days as the son of a former slave to his rise to unprecedented international acclaim as a stage actor and singer, and from his political awakening to his downfall as a victim of McCarthyism and the efforts of the U.S. government to destroy him.
language: English
title: Paul Robeson
titlecomplete: Paul Robeson
genres: History, African American, American History, Music, Biography Memoir, African American Literature, Race, Politics, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 255
publisher: Knopf