Book : Negro With A Hat The Rise And Fall Of Marcus Garvey -

-Titulo Original : Negro With A Hat The Rise And Fall Of Marcus Garvey

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Oxford University Press

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New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garveys life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirerof Lenin, and a dandy given to elaborate public displays. Above all, he was a shrewd promoter whose use of pageantry evoked a lost African civilization and fired the imagination of his followers. Negro With a Hat restores Garvey to his place as one of the founders of black nationalism and a keyfigure of the 20th century. A searching, vivid, and (as the title suggests) complex account of Garveys short but consequential life. --Steve Hahn, The New Republic The story of Marcus Garvey, the charismatic and tireless black leader who had a meteoric rise and fall in the late 1910s and early 20s, makes for enthralling reading, and Garvey has found an engaging and objective biographer in Colin Grant.... Grants book is not all politics, ideology, money andlawsuits. It is also an engrossing social history.... Negro With a Hat is an achievement on a scale Garvey might have appreciated. --New York Times Book Review Dazzling, definitive biography of the controversial activist who led the 1920s Back to Africa movement.... Grants learned passion for his subject shimmers on every page. A riveting and well-wrought volume that places Garvey solidly in the pantheon of important 20th-century black leaders. --Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) This splendid book is certain to become the definitive biography. Garvey was a dreamer and a doer; Grant captures the fascination of both. --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Grants strength lies in his ability to re-create political moods and offer compelling sketches of colorful individuals and their organizations.... An engaging and readable introduction to a complicated and contentious historical actor who, in his time, possessed a unique capacity to inspiredevotion and hatred, adulation and fear. --Chicago Tribune A monumental, nuanced and broadly sympathetic portrait. --Financial Times Review In Negro With a Hat, he has produced a searching, vivid, and (as the title suggests) complex account of Garveys short but consequential life.--Steve Hahn, The New RepublicThe story of Marcus Garvey, the charismatic and tireless black leader who had a meteoric rise and fall in the late 1910s and early 20s, makes for enthralling reading, and Garvey has found an engaging and objective biographer in Colin Grant....Grants book is not all politics, ideology, money andlawsuits. It is also an engrossing social history....Negro With a Hat is an achievement on a scale Garvey might have appreciated.--New York Times Book ReviewDazzling, definitive biography of the controversial activist who led the 1920s Back to Africa movement....Grants learned passion for his subject shimmers on every page A riveting and well-wrought volume that places Garvey solidly in the pantheon of important 20th-century black leaders.--KirkusReviews (starred review)Dense with detail, but consistently readable, this splendid book is certain to become the definitive biography. Garvey was a dreamer and a doer; Grant captures the fascination of both.--Publishers Weekly (starred review)Grants strength lies in his ability to re-create political moods and offer compelling sketches of colorful individuals and their organizations....Negro With a Hat is an engaging and readable introduction to a complicated and contentious historical actor who, in his time, possessed a uniquecapacity to inspire devotion and hatred, adulation and fear.--Chicago TribuneGrants biography ably captures the Garvey moment, although, perhaps wisely, he leaves the many contradictions in Garveys character unresolved.--The New YorkerInformative and fascinating, Grants profile of Garvey is a vital contribution.--BooklistGrant...