Best reads of 2023: A bountiful year for fiction and nonfiction
This year’s best books, chosen by Monitor reviewers, pay close attention to history and its lessons for the present – and the future.
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This year’s best books, chosen by Monitor reviewers, pay close attention to history and its lessons for the present – and the future.
Esteemed scholar W.E.B. Du Bois urged Black men to enlist in World War I. As a new book explores, the decision haunted him for the rest of his life.
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W. E. B. Du Bois hoped that WWI would help Black Americans make gains at home after serving their country abroad. His work for racial progress, like America itself, remains unfinished.
“I am American Negro,” W.E.B. DuBois declared, “and white America, with saving exceptions, is cruel to everything that has Black blood. Black people, he added, “shall never rest, we shall