The Autobiography of W. E. B. DuBois

<p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: initial>The present volume is quite different from the other two autobiographies by Du Bois not only because of its additional two-decade span and the significantly altered outlook of its author but also because in it-unlike the others-he seeks as he writes to review my life as frankly and fully as I can. Of course with the directness and honesty which so decisively characterized him he reminds the reader of this book of the intense subjectivity that inevitably permeates autobiography; hence he writes he offers this account of his life as he understood it and as he-would like others to believe-it to have been. Certainly while Dr. Du Bois was deep in his ninth decade when he died longevity was the least remarkable feature of his life. As editor author lecturer scholar organizer inspirer and fighter he was among the most consequential figures of the twentieth century. Necessarily therefore the full and final accounting of that life and his times becomes an indispensable volume.</span></p>