WEB Du Bois:Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis. 1993. Hardcover.

Comprehensive portrait of the man who understood that the problem of the 20th century would be the problem of the color line.

This monumental biography--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how Du Bois changed forever the way Americans think about themselves.