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A fine first biography of thinker Alain Locke

Feb 7th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Announcements

Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher
By Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth
University of Chicago Press
432 pp. $45

Reviewed by Carlin Romano
Inquirer Book Critic
When Philadelphia-born Alain L. Locke (1885-1954), the first African American to win a Rhodes Scholarship, wrote home to his mother shortly after beginning undergraduate life at Harvard, he didn’t exactly express solidarity with [...]

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