"An extraordinary accomplishment . . . a model biography. . . ."--John W. Blassingame

George Washington Williams, a soldier, minister, journalist, lawyer and historian, was Ohio's first African-American legislator, serving in the Ohio General Assembly from 1880 through 1881.

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... George Washington Williams, three pioneering nineteenth-century African American historians, were among the first to connect African Americans' pursuit of citizenship and claims of manhood to the military service that Black soldiers ...

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In this long-awaited new biography, Tom Williams shadows one of the true literary giants of the twentieth century and considers how crime writing was raised to the level of art.

This is a biography of the highest order: a book about the major American playwright of his time written by the major American drama critic of his time.