Hard to escape the feeling that BTW's early death was accelerated by stress of wearing the "mask that grins and lies." http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/03/up-from-history-part-3.html …
@davidfrum Worth looking up Irving Howe's essay on Dubois & BTW. Makes similar points very acutely. In Howe's Celebrations and Attacks.
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@HeerJeet Thanks for hint -
@davidfrum For Howe, BTW wasn't an Uncle Tom but the leader of a defeated people trying to work out best terms of settlement.
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