Paul Robeson

About this book

Passionate and enormously talented Paul Robeson lived one of the great lives of the twentieth century. Martin Dubermans classic biography is a monumental and powerfully affecting portrait of one of this centurys most notable performers political radicals and champions of racial equality. Drawing on a vast archive of family papers and interviews with friends and relatives as well as FBI files Paul Robeson charts the heroic and tragic course of Robesons life: from his early days as the son of a former slave to his rise to unprecedented international acclaim as a stage actor and singer and from his political awakening to his downfall as a victim of McCarthyism and the efforts of the U.S. government to destroy him.