Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey

Author/Contributor(s):	Grant, Colin
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	03/02/2010
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In the first full-length biography of Garvey in a generation, Colin Grant captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer of Lenin, and a dandy given to elaborate public displays. Above all, he was a shrewd promoter whose use of pageantry evoked a lost African civilization and fired the imagination of his followers. Negro With a Hat restores Garvey to his place as one of the founders of black nationalism and a key figure of the 20th century.