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Title: Then Darkness Fled: The Liberating Wisdom of Booker T. Washington (Leaders in Action Series) by Stephen Mansfield ISBN: 1-58182-053-4 Publisher: Cumberland House Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Terrific
Comment: In another sterling volume of the Leaders in Action series, Stephen Mansfield here outlines the life and character of Booker T. Washington. In vivacious voice and moving magniloquence, Mansfield traces Washington's path from slavery to his founding of Tuskegee Institute. He shows the difficulties Washington surpassed in reaching his goals, and the principles that helped him make it. In the words of Washington, "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succed." By this standard, Booker T. Washington was an astonishingly successful man.
Washington wrote his own autobiography, _Up From Slavery_, which must certainly not be neglected. But Mansfield's biography is also a criticial read because he includes facts that the autobiographer was too modest to mention, and he highlights wonderful aspects of Washington's character that humility prevented him from including. This biography doesn't contain the wonderful self-analysis and insight of Booker himself - but it does contain all the benefits of a third person account.
One thing I really appreciated about this book was its terrific analysis of slavery and inter-race reconciliation. Expounding Booker's opinion, Mansfield blames both whites and blacks for the problems that cropped up after the Civil War. Whites needed to repent of their brutal treatment of slaves and actually begin considering blacks more than mere animals; and blacks needed to repent of their spirit of bitterness toward their white enslavers, and begin working hard and leaving no excuse for disrespect of blacks. Too many books on reconciliation have practically advocated bitterness, hatred, and laziness when what is really needed is Washington's outlook of forgiveness and hard work. This book offers relief from such pride.
To wrap up, this is a great biography. Good history, good style, and good content. Buy it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding biography of an outstanding Black American.
Comment: Then Darkness Fled is a celebration of the life of Booker T. Washinghton and tells of a man who dined with heads of state and became the first Afro-American to receive honorary degrees from Harvard and Dartmouth. Chapters survey both his achievements and his life in this lively coverage.
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Title: Forgotten Founding Father: The Heroic Legacy of George Whitefield (Leaders in Action Series) by Stephen Mansfield ISBN: 1581821654 Publisher: Cumberland House Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Never Give in: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill (Leaders in Action Series) by Stephen Mansfield ISBN: 1581823223 Publisher: Cumberland House Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Faith of George W. Bush by Stephen Mansfield ISBN: 1585423092 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Statesman and Saint: The Principled Politics of William Wilberforce (Leaders in Action Series) by David J. Vaughan, George Grant ISBN: 1581822243 Publisher: Cumberland House Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual Legacy of C.S. Lewis (Leaders in Action Series) by Terry W. Glaspey, George E. Grant ISBN: 1888952210 Publisher: Cumberland House Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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