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Colored Memories: A Biographer's Quest for the Elusive Lester A. Walton - Susan Curtis
Colored Memories: A Biographer's Quest for the Elusive Lester A. Walton
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Lester A. Walton was an African American journalist, cultural critic, diplomat, and political activist—an adviser to presidents and industrialists in a career that spanned the first six decades of the twentieth century. In this book, Curtis seeks to discover why Walton is forgotten today. In this... show more
Lester A. Walton was an African American journalist, cultural critic, diplomat, and political activist—an adviser to presidents and industrialists in a career that spanned the first six decades of the twentieth century. In this book, Curtis seeks to discover why Walton is forgotten today. In this unconventional book—a postmodern ghost story, an unprecedented experiment in life-writing—Curtis relates her frustrating search through long-overlooked documents to discover this forgotten man, offering insight into how America’s obsession with race has made Walton’s story unwelcome. She explores the treachery, duplicity, and archival accidents that transformed a man dedicated to the fulfillment of American democracy into a shadowy figure.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780826217868 (0826217869)
Publisher: University of Missouri
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
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