Gerald Early

Gerald Early, the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters at Washington University in St. Louis, is the author of several books, including The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature and Modern American Culture, which won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.

Racism and DiscriminationMarch 9, 2006

The Great Black Hope

Taylor Branch concludes his staggering trilogy of the civil rights era with At Canaan’s Edge, a relentlessly detailed narrative of Martin Luther King’s desperate struggle to save the movement.

Gerald Early
Non-fictionNovember 16, 2005

The Ring Cycle

When Joe Louis defeated Nazi sympathizer Max Schmeling in 1938, it was the boxing match that reverberated across the world. Three new books chronicle the match and all the racial and political turmoil of which it was an emblem.

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Gerald Early

Racism and DiscriminationMarch 9, 2006

The Great Black Hope

Taylor Branch concludes his staggering trilogy of the civil rights era with At Canaan’s Edge, a relentlessly detailed narrative of Martin Luther King’s desperate struggle to save the movement.

Gerald Early

Non-fictionNovember 16, 2005

The Ring Cycle

When Joe Louis defeated Nazi sympathizer Max Schmeling in 1938, it was the boxing match that reverberated across the world. Three new books chronicle the match and all the racial and political turmoil of which it was an emblem.

Gerald Early