CLR James: Cricket’s Philosopher King
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (610 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1905791011 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 202 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dave Renton is a Visiting Professor in Sociology at Johannesburg University and an activist in tenant, union, and housing campaigns. His other works include Trotsky (Haus 2004).
Cyril Lionel Robert James was the great intellectual of the African revolution.
It's lucidly written, full of narrative interest and explores areas of the great Caribbean man's life and struggles that have rarely been a point of focus.' -- Chris Searle The Morning Star . 'I never cheated, I never appealed for a decision unless I thought the batsman was out, I never argued with the umpire, I never jeered at a defeated opponent If I caught myself complaining or making excuses I pulled up. It has never left me.' 'Books about CLR James abound, but this is a particularly good one. From the eight years of school life this code became the moral framework of my existence. If afterwards I remembered doing it I took an inward decision to try not to do it again
Excellent introduction to C.L.R. James Darryl R. Morris C.L.R. James (1901-89) was one of the leading black intellectuals of the 20th century, and was influential in the Pan African and US civil rights movements, independence for his home country of Trinidad, and the socialist and Trotskyite movements. He was born in Trinidad and lived for many years in the UK and the US, and was closely linked to Leon Trotsky, Kwame Nkrumah (the first president of Ghana), Richard Wright, V.S. Naipaul (his fellow countryman, who eventually turned against him), Dr. Eric Williams (the first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago), and the American Marxist Max Shach