This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the powerful principles that led him to become the first great African-American leader in the United States. The personal account of a fugitive slave's privation and sufferings and his campaigns for Negro emancipation. This dramatic autobiography of the...

One of the world's most eminent philosophers describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of anxiety. This new edition includes an Introduction by Peter J. Gomes