Lester A. Walton was an African American journalist, cultural critic, diplomat, and political activist--an adviser to presidents and industrialists in a career that spanned the first six decades of the twentieth century. In this book, Curtis seeks to discover why Walton is forgotten today. In this unconventional book--a postmodern ghost story, an unprecedented experiment in life-writing--Curtis relates her frustrating search through long-overlooked documents to discover this forgotten man, offering insight into how America ...
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Lester A. Walton was an African American journalist, cultural critic, diplomat, and political activist--an adviser to presidents and industrialists in a career that spanned the first six decades of the twentieth century. In this book, Curtis seeks to discover why Walton is forgotten today. In this unconventional book--a postmodern ghost story, an unprecedented experiment in life-writing--Curtis relates her frustrating search through long-overlooked documents to discover this forgotten man, offering insight into how America's obsession with race has made Walton's story unwelcome. She explores the treachery, duplicity, and archival accidents that transformed a man dedicated to the fulfillment of American democracy into a shadowy figure.
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New. Lester A Walton was African American journalist, cultural critic, diplomat, and political activist. This book, while exploring the contours of his life, seeks to discover why our collective memory of Walton has failed. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 653. 2008. 0th Edition. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.