Frederick Douglass: Prophet of FreedomModern · History, Biography, Nonfiction
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
2018 · 888 pages · Nonfiction
66
Modern
★ 4.18 on Goodreads · 13K ratings
≈ 22 hours to read · about 6 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (History) winner (2019). On the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. 4.18★ from 13K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
66Must-Read Score
- Critics76 out of 100 · counts 35%+30
- Readers59 out of 100 · counts 50%+34
- Buzz10 out of 100 · counts 15%+2
Where it ranks
- #23 of the 207 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #36 of the 220 history books we rank
- #44 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #139 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (History) winner (2019)
On the lists
- NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Reads as
True story
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