Manning Marable (1950–2011) was the M. Moran Weston and Black Alumni Council Professor of African American Studies and a professor of history and public affairs at Columbia University. He was the founding director of African American Studies at Columbia from 1993 to 2003, and also served as director of Columbia's Center for Contemporary Black History. The author of fifteen books, Marable also edited the quarterly journal Souls.
From the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America.
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