The Wounded World

Named A Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography A MAAH Stone Book Award Finalist The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I — and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers. When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Amer