TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edwards; Erica R. 
TI  - Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership 
SN  - 0816675465 9780816675463
AV  - PS153.N5E34  2012 810.9'896073--dc23 2011031793 
PY  - 2012///
PB  - University Of Minnesota Press
KW  - HN1-995 Social history and conditions. Social problems
N2  - Social and political change is impossible in the absence of gifted male charismatic leadership—this is the fiction that shaped African American culture throughout the twentieth century. If we understand this, Erica R. Edwards tells us, we will better appreciate the dramatic variations within both the modern black freedom struggle and the black literary tradition
ER  -