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Fine Frederick Douglass biography has disturbing elements
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Yusef Salaam
New York Amsterdam News
12-10-1994
Fine Frederick Douglass biography has disturbing elements.
William McFeely's biography, Frederick Douglass, is a fine book. In his research, no river was deep enough, no mountain high enough to keep him from obtaining material on the subject.
While the research is exhaustive, the writing is also to be commended without compromising his wholly nonfiction subject.
Like a good novelist or dramatist, McFeely keeps the reader hungry for page after page as he presents the fullness of Douglass' life on the stage of history. The biographer takes the ...
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