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The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Frederick Douglass
Edited by Nicholas Buccola
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:392
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreAnthologies
ISBN/Barcode 9781624664540
ClassificationsDewey:973.8092
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Imprint Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Publication Date 1 March 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

In addition to a thoughtful selection of the essays, speeches, and autobiographical writings of Frederick Douglass, this anthology provides an illuminating Introduction; a timeline of Douglass' life; footnotes that introduce individuals, quotations, and events; and a selected bibliography.

Author Biography

Nicholas Buccola is Associate Professor of Political Science, and Founding Director of the Frederick Douglass Forum on Law, Rights, and Justice at Linfield College. He is the author of The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass.

Reviews

"For years I have wanted a compact, carefully edited collection of Frederick Douglass' writings and speeches spanning his whole careerfrom the antebellum years to the Civil War and Reconstruction to the retreat from racial democracy in the 1870s, '80s, and '90s. Finally, in Nicholas Buccola's expertly edited The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings & Speeches, I have it. Buccola has done teachers and scholars of American political thought a tremendous service by making a truly representative selection of Douglass' achievement available in an affordable volume. I am excited to assign this book to my students and share with them the full breadth of Douglass' intellectual fire." Jack Turner, University of Washington " The Essential Douglass is essential reading for students of American politics and American political thought. Nick Buccola does a masterful job of enriching and enhancing our acquaintance with Frederick Douglass, the author, orator, and abolitionist. In this volume, we see Douglass in his full range and in his full capacity as an American statesman." Susan McWilliams, Pomona College