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“It’s the history I recommend to friends and students seeking a readable introduction to Harlem’s rise as ‘the Negro Capital of the World.’ Lewis remains the least tediously detached writer on the Renaissance ever to have wielded a thick footnote. Only When Harlem Was in Vogue could describe Marcus Garvey’s ideology as a “farrago of Booker Washington and Mussolini,” and only there could this description seem well-founded.” Read more...
The best books on The Harlem Renaissance
William J. Maxwell, Literary Scholar
