- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781446400449
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 560
Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey
- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781446400449
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 560
A brisk and well-researched biography... A splendidly colourful book
Daily Telegraph
An elegant and well-researched biography chronicling the triumphs and eventual disappointments of Garvey - black nationalist and Jamaican national hero
The Times
Approaches his subject with care and a storyteller's flair...a diligently researched account
Metro
Engrossing...Writing in a concise, expressive style...drawing on gargantuan research...Grant meticulously chronicles Garvey's eventful odyssey and sheds light on his revolutionary thinking and formidable public speaking...he shows Garvey's heady triumphs and crushing disappointments, his complexity, his paradoxes
Independent on Sunday
Grant is an accomplished storyteller and writes with an elegance leavened by wit and cynicism that makes this book eminently readable
Margaret Busby, Guardian
Gripping and sympathetic...monumental...Grant writes with the quiet authority of a historian who has done a colossal amount of research... and knows the smells and tastes of this period as if he had lived through it. He is slow to pass judgement, but when he does so, the verdict carries real weight... His history reads like a first-rate novel... Grant's book is a fine and valuable monument to [Garvey's] memory
Kevin Jackson, New Statesman
In this superb new biography, Colin Grant portrays Garvey as a showman-ideologue [and] is to be congratulated on this scholarly, well-written account
Sunday Telegraph
Splendid and well-researched biography
The Week