| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations. By Michael Rudolph West. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. xiv, 281 pp. $29.50, ISBN 0-231-13048-1.)

Michael Rudolph West's The Education of Booker T. Washington deserves a place of honor beside Waldo Martin's The Mind of Frederick Douglass (1984). Like Martin, West has recast a historical figure previously viewed almost exclusively as a politician and reformer. Both Douglass and Washington were men of action and of rousing words; neither seems to fit the conventional definition of a man of ideas. Demonstrating that Washington's thought warrants careful, sustained, and respectful scrutiny is West's enduring contribution.

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