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Book Review
| Max Yergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior. By David Henry Anthony III. (New York: New York University Press, 2006. xiv, 375 pp. $49.00, ISBN 0-8147-0704-1.)
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| As the title of this provocative work suggests, Max Yergan certainly is one of the more intriguing figures of the previous century. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, during the worst of the unlamented Jim Crow era in the late nineteenth century, this African American intellectual joined the staff of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). In that post he was able to tour the planet, camping variously in India and East Africa. |
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