| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Du Bois and His Rivals. By Raymond Wolters. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xvi, 311 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN0-82621385-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8262-1519-X.)

Raymond Wolters drew inspiration from two sources for his recent study of W. E. B. Du Bois: Richard Hofstadter's 1948 collection of biographies, The American Political Tradition, and the centennial celebrations of the 1903 publication of Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk. The first source provided Wolters with a blueprint. Each chapter in Wolters's book centers on a pivotal debate between Du Bois and other African American leaders on the direction the early civil rights movement should follow and the strategies it should employ. "This book explains Du Bois by showing how he differed from his principal rivals," Wolters writes (p. 4). "Du Bois was not Booker T. Washington, not Oswald Garrison Villard, not Robert Russa Morton, not Marcus Garvey, and certainly not Walter White" (ibid.). The second source ushered in a "renaissance in 'Du Bois studies'" (p. x) and suggested to Wolters that the timing of his collective biography was propitious. "Finally," he explains, "the time had come for my collective biography" (ibid.).

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