Volume 36, Number 7 · April 27, 1989
The Fate of Paul Robeson
By Murray Kempton
Paul Robeson
by Martin Bauml Duberman
Knopf, 804 pp., $24.95
Paul Robeson's was a career whose ascent and decline were alike tethered to his identity as a man of conspicuous color—conscripted to be taken on approval throughout a widespreading acceptance that felt itself particularly kind and an even more general casting-away that felt itself especially wounded.
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