Clr james a political biography sample

(Albany: State University of New York Press 1996).

SINCE THE DEATH of the talented Trinidadian-born Marxist CLR James (1901-1989), there has been something of a "James renaissance." James' remarkable 1950 manuscript on American culture has been published for the first time as American Civilization (1993). The CLR James Reader (1992) brings together a sampling of his writing for a new audience. Selected articles written for Trotskyist journals have been reprinted in CLR James and Revolutionary Marxism (1994). Works of secondary scholarship such as CLR James: His Intellectual Legacies (1995) have illuminated various aspects of his work. However, in spite of Paul Buhle's initial effort in CLR James: The Artist as Revolutionary (1988), until recently we have been awaiting an accessible study that provides an introduction to James' life and work as a whole. Kent Worcester's book is precisely such a study.