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Product Description: Poet, playwright, novelist, and a grand figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Langston Hughes stands as one of the most extraordinary and prolific American writers of this century. As the first installment of a two-volume biography, this portrait of Langston Hughes depicts his life from his birth in Missouri in 1902 to the winter of 1941...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780195040111 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 2, 1986, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Poet, playwright, novelist, a grand figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s--Langston Hughes was one of the most extraordinary and prolific American writers of this century.

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9780195054262 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 1988), cover price $17.95 | also contains Methods in Field Epidemiology | About this edition: Poet, playwright, novelist, and a grand figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Langston Hughes stands as one of the most extraordinary and prolific American writers of this century.

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Product Description: Back in its original unabridged form, a novel of Depression-era Chicago.
By Arnold Rampersad (contributor) and Richard Wright

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9781555531591 | Uxg edition (Northeastern Univ Pr, March 25, 1993), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Back in its original unabridged form, a novel of Depression-era Chicago.

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A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.

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9780195151619, titled "The Life of Langston Hughes: 1941-1967, I Dream a World" | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 10, 2002), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.
9780195045192 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of the black American poet from the 1940s to his death in 1967

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9780195061697, titled "The Life of Langston Hughes, 1941-1967: I Dream a World" | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 21, 1989), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of the black American poet from the 1940s to his death in 1967

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9780801839481 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 1, 1989), cover price $27.00

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Places the black leader's writings in a full biographical context, analyzing his major works and presenting a balanced view of Du Bois's career by giving equal weight to his social, political, and artistic productions

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9780805209853 | Reprint edition (Schocken Books, March 1, 1990), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Places the black leader's writings in a full biographical context, analyzing his major works and presenting a balanced view of Du Bois's career by giving equal weight to his social, political, and artistic productions

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Product Description: A collection of Critical Essays reflecting both older and newer perspectives. Will also contain an introduction by the editor (a respected scholar in the field), a chronology of the author's life, and an annotated bibliography.
By Arnold Rampersad (editor)

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9780130361202 | Facsimile edition (Pearson P T R, January 1, 1995), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A collection of Critical Essays reflecting both older and newer perspectives.

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A comprehensive collection of the verse of Langston Huges contains 860 poems, including three hundred that have never appeared in book form, is arranged chronologically, and features commentary by Hughes's biographer. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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9780679764083 | Vintage Books, November 1, 1995, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Arranged chronologically, a comprehensive collection of the verse of Langston Hughes contains 860 poems, including three hundred that have never appeared in book form and commentary by Hughes's biographer.

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Featuring never-before-published photographs and documents from the Robinson family archives, an unparalleled, critically acclaimed biography of Jackie Robinson captures the complexity and strength of character of the African-American hero. Reprint. NYT. PW.

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9780679444954 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1997, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A portrait of one of baseball's most celebrated players chronicles the life of Jackie Robinson from his rural Southern childhood to his early career in the Negro Leagues to his role as the man who broke professional baseball's color barrier

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9780345426550 | Ballantine Books, September 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A detailed biography of the African American baseball player who broke the color line in professional baseball, and describes the historical context of his life
9780679774334 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, October 1, 1997), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A detailed biography of the African American baseball player who broke the color line in professional baseball, and describes the historical context of his life
9780783881317 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, July 1, 1997), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: The extraordinary life of Jackie Robinson is illuminated as never before in this full-scale biography by Arnold Rampersad, who was chosen by Jack's widow, Rachel, to tell her husband's story, and was given unprecedented access to his private papers.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780679460077 | Random House, September 1, 1997, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A portrait of one of baseball's most celebrated players chronicles the life of Jackie Robinson from his rural Southern childhood to his early career in the Negro Leagues to his role as the man who broke professional baseball's color barrier.

A detailed biography of the African American baseball player who broke the color line in professional baseball, and describes the historical context of his life

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9780613173162 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $25.75 | About this edition: A detailed biography of the African American baseball player who broke the color line in professional baseball, and describes the historical context of his life

Paperback:

9780395980767 | Mariner Books, July 1, 2000, cover price $8.50 | also contains B.o.o. 1

Hardcover:

9780826213396 | Univ of Missouri Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $45.00

Hardcover:

9780826213402 | Univ of Missouri Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $45.00

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Product Description: Volume 3 collects the poems of the last period of Hughes's life. Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951) brilliantly fused the modernist dissonances of bebop jazz with his perception of Harlem life as both a triumph of hope and a deepening crisis ("What happens to a dream deferred?")...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780826213419 | Univ of Missouri Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Volume 3 collects the poems of the last period of Hughes's life.

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A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America. (view table of contents)

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9780195146431 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 10, 2002), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.

Hardcover:

9780195219364 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 5, 2002), cover price $79.90

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A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.

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9780195146424 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 10, 2002), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.

A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780735102712 | Replica Books, June 1, 2002, cover price $32.00
9780195151602, titled "The Life of Langston Hughes: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America" | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 10, 2002), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.

By R. Baxter Miller (editor) and Arnold Rampersad (introduced by)

Hardcover:

9780826214119 | Univ of Missouri Pr, June 1, 2002, cover price $55.00

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The late tennis champion and social activist remembers his experiences in the segregated South of his youth, his triumphs on the court, his family and religious life, and his struggle with AIDS

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9780606310840 | Demco Media, August 30, 2004, cover price $16.80 | About this edition: The late tennis champion and social activist remembers his experiences in the segregated South of his youth, his triumphs on the court, his family and religious life, and his struggle with AIDS

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By Arnold Rampersad (introduced by)

Paperback:

9789990221329 | Harpercollins, August 30, 2005, cover price $0.02

Prebinding:

9781435293403 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $23.95

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A definitive literary portrait of contrasting visions and styles covers the key issues important to the African-American experience, including poetry on slavery, the South; protest and resistance, music and religion, spirituality, sexuality and love, and the idea of Africa.
By Hilary Herbold (editor) and Arnold Rampersad (editor)

Hardcover:

9780195125634 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 1, 2005, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A literary portrait of contrasting visions and styles covers the key issues important to the African-American experience, including poetry on slavery, the South, protest and resistance, music and religion, spirituality, sexuality and love, and the idea of Africa.

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An addition to a poetry series looks at one of the central figures in the Harlem Renaissance, offering a biography of Langston Hughes and many annotated samples of his work.
By Benny Andrews (illustrator), Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad (editor) and David E. Roessel (editor)

Hardcover:

9781402718458 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, April 28, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A brief profile of African American poet Langston Hughes accompanies some of his better known poems for children.

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