FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History. In this ''cinematic and deeply engaging'' (The New York Times Book Review) biography, David Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historian have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of Douglass's newspapers. ''Absorbing and even moving . . . a brilliant book that speaks to our own time as well as Douglass's'' (The Wall Street Journal), Blight's biography tells the fascinating story of Douglass's two marriages and his complex extended family. ''David Blight has written the definitive biography of Frederick Douglass . . . a powerful portrait of one of the most important American voices of the nineteenth century'' (The Boston Globe).