Race and the American Idea: 155 Years of Writings From The Atlantic [768 pages, English] of Race and the American Idea: 155 Years of Writings From The Atlantic by Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington and Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nikole Hannah-Jones and Benjamin E. Mays and Betty E. Chmaj and Martin Luther King Jr. and Oscar Handlin and Anthony Lewis and Jonathan Kozol and Robert Coles and Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Ralph Ellison and James Alan McPherson and Nicholas Lemann and Juan Williams and Elijah Anderson and Thomas Edsall and Mary D. Edsall and Robert S. Boynton and Randall Kennedy and Woodrow Wilson and Quincy Ewing and J. Saunders Redding and Ralph McGill and Claude M. Steele and Jack Beatty and Hua Hsu and Jeffery Goldberg