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This unique comic by Milton Knight illuminates the early years of C.L.R. James (19011989), known in much later years as the ""last great Pan-Africanist."" The son of a provincial school administrator in British-governed Trinidad, James disappointed his family by embracing the culture and passions of the colonial underclass, Carnival and cricket. He joined the literary avant-garde of the island before leaving for Britain. In the UK, James swiftly became a beloved cricket journalist, playwright for his close friend Paul Robeson, and a pathbreaking scholar of black history with The Black Jacobins (1938), the first history of the Haitian revolt. The artistic skills of Milton Knight, at once acute and provocative, bring out James's unique personality, how it arose, and how he became a world figure.

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THERE'S LITERALLY NO reason for any socialist to not pick up this illustrated novelette, even if you've already read all of C.L.R. James' writings and have read the biographies and studies of his works written by Paul Buhle (the novelette's co-editor), James D. Young, Kent Worcester, Frank Rosengarten and others. This pamphlet is a delight, a charming caricature drawn in a whimsical style by Milton Knight, an artist who's worked on everything from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics to World War 3 Illustrated. --Jason Schulman, https: //solidarity-us.org Illustrated by Milton Knight and edited by political graphic novelist extraordinaire Paul Buhle and Lawrence Ware, the book traces the early years of a man born in 1901 whose most famous book was the 1938, The Black Jacobins, the first history of the Haitian revolt. --Randy Shaw, www.beyondchron.org/ A vividly realized graphic biography that provides a delightful introduction to the early life and times of CLR James. Highly recommended. --Kent Worcester, author, C.L.R. James, a Political Biography

A vividly realized graphic biography that provides a delightful introduction to the early life and times of CLR James. Highly recommended. --Kent Worcester, author, C.L.R. James, a Political Biography

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Paul Buhle introduced James's work to the New Left via Radical America in the later 1960s. Milton Knight's work has appeared in outlets such as Heavy Metal, High Times, and National Lampoon. Lawrence Ware writes and comments widely on race, sports, and culture in many publications, including New Black Man (In Exile), Counterpunch, Democratic Left, Huffington Post Live, and NPR.

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