{"product_id":"the-second-emancipation-howard-w-french-9781324092452","title":"The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Second Emancipation\u003c\/em\u003e, a work of Odyssean dimension, recasts the liberation of post-World War II colonial Africa and the American civil rights struggle through the lens of Ghana's revolutionary visionary Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), who emerges as the most significant African leader of the twentieth century. Determined that readers fully understand Nkrumah's legacy, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eBorn in Blackness\u003c\/em\u003e Howard W. French newly dramatizes the Nkrumah story--his humble beginnings, his momentous experience in Harlem, his American education, and his return to Ghana in the final years of British subjugation. The language soars as French evokes an entire continent in the throes of liberation and a roiling United States in the Cold War era. In its dramatic depiction of a continent that once exuded the promise of a newly won freedom, \u003cem\u003eThe Second Emancipation \u003c\/em\u003eis a generational work that positions not only Africa but also the American civil rights movement at the forefront of modern-day history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Howard W. French\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1324092459\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324092452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Howard W. French","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46489457524991,"sku":"9781324092452","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7a215e7d-66ff-433c-9e8a-ff4e1420cd45.jpg?v=1736953609","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-second-emancipation-howard-w-french-9781324092452","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}