Paul Robeson : : the artist as revolutionary / / Gerald Horne.

A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages. These could be the crowning achievements of a life well-lived, yet for Paul Robeson the higher calling of social justice led him to abandon the theater...

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Superior document:Revolutionary lives
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Place / Publishing House:London : : Pluto Press,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Revolutionary lives.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (257 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • "The best known American in the world"
  • Rising star
  • Rising revolutionary
  • From Moscow to Madrid
  • "The tallest tree in our forest"
  • "Black Stalin"?
  • Robeson: Primary victim of the "Blacklist"
  • Britain beckons
  • Triumph
  • and tragedy
  • Death of a revolutionary.