Prisoners of Honor; The Dreyfus Affair

by Lewis, David L.

$250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed · In dust jacket

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1973. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Good/Fair. xi [1], 346 pages. Chronology. Footnotes. Illustrations. Selected Sources and Bibliography. Index. The dust jacket is price-clipped and has wear , tears, chips and soiling. Inscribed by the author on the fep. The inscription reads: "To Gerry, Best wishes for splendid in your new home. David L. Lewis December 1973". David Levering Lewis (born May 25, 1936) is an American historian and professor emeritus of history at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois (in 1994 and 2001, respectively). He is the first author to win Pulitzer Prizes for biography for two successive volumes on the same subject. Lewis concentrates on comparative history with special focus on twentieth-century United States social history and civil rights. Lewis is the author of the first academic biography of Martin Luther King Jr., which was published in 1970. Lewis wrote his Pulitzer Prize-winning two volume-biography of W. E. B. Du Bois during his 18-year tenure at Rutgers. Lewis won the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize in 1994 for his first volume. In 2001 he won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his second volume on Du Bois, published that year. He was president of the Society of American Historians in 2002. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Ph

• Publisher: William Morrow & Company, Inc
• Year: 1973
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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