Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art is the biography of an African American icon and a demonstration of historian Lindsey R. Swindall's knack for thorough, detailed research and reflection.

Dedication
Introduction
Chapter One: Scholar Athlete
Chapter Two: Renaissance Man
Chapter Three: World Citizen
Chapter Four: People's Artist
Chapter Five: Cold Warrior
Chapter Six: Final Curtain
Note on Sources
Acknowledgments
Index

Lindsey R. Swindall earned her doctorate in Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is a teaching assistant professor in the College of Arts and Letters at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. She has also written: The Politics of Paul Robeson's Othello and The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955. She is co-editor of American Appetites: A Documentary Reader.