![]() ![]() ![]() This volume grippingly describes Hughes' reassessment of radicalism and art during World War II, when he contributed steadily to the national war effort even as he relentlessly attacked segregation in his country. By that time, the world revered him not only as the dean of Afro-American writers, but also as a renowned artist whose poems, plays, and stories had profoundly influenced writers in Africa, the Caribbean, and elsewhere. Michael Harper hailed it inThe Boston Globe as "an exquisite orchestration of the fully lived life" Alice Walker called it "a book I have waited half a lifetime for" and John Gross declared inThe New York Times that "Rampersad you eager to see what he makes of the rest of the story." Now we have just that: the second and final volume of Rampersad's epic biography of black America's most original and beloved poet.Rampersad traces Hughes' life from the humiliations of 1940-41, with his career in jeopardy, to his death in 1967. ![]() The first volume of Arnold Rampersad's The Life of Langston Hughes received enormous praise. Oxford University Press The Life of Langston Hughes Vol 2 1941-1967 I Dream a World by Arnold Rampersad ![]()
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