Library of America

"One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his life - from the abolition of slavery to women's rights, from the Civil War to lynching, from American patriotism to black nationalism." "Between 1950 and 1975, Philip S. Foner collected the most important of Douglass's hundreds...

Presents portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald, with in-depth look at his life and work, his tortured marital relationship and his troubled friendships with fellow colleagues such as Ernest Hemingway.