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Trouble in Mind (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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A professor of American History at the University of California, Berkeley, Leon F. Litwack won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1979 for his book Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. Litwack is a distinguished scholar of African American history. His work is grounded in the primary sources of black life and infused with the rhythm of the blues that gives this excellent book its evocative title.

Trouble in Mind continues Litwack’s epic exploration of black life in the South that he began in Been in the Storm So Long. The book concentrates on...

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