The Centurions: Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray

In anticipation of its upcoming thirty-fifth anniversary in 2017, Library of America recently asked members of its Advisory Council to identify an American writer or written work that had a transformative impact on them. Historian, author, and LOA Advisor Douglas Brinkley wrote back with the following appreciation of the work of Albert Murray, in particular the “biting logic” and “no-holds barred polemic” of Murray’s first work, The Omni–Americans (1970).

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