Facing Frederick, Tonya Bolden
Facing Frederick, Tonya Bolden
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Facing Frederick
The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man

Author: Tonya Bolden

Narrator: Adam Lazarre-White

Unabridged: 3 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/10/2018


Synopsis

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is best known for the telling of his own emancipation. But there is much more to Douglass's story than his time spent enslaved and his famous autobiography. Facing Frederick captures the whole complicated and, at times, perplexing person that he was. Statesman, suffragist, writer, and newspaperman, this book focuses on Douglass the man rather than the historical icon.

About Tonya Bolden

Tonya Bolden’s books have earned much praise and numerous starred reviews. Her work has been recognized with the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children and the Carter G. Woodson Book Award and listed as a CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People. She is also the recipient of the Children’s Book Guild of Washington, DC’s Nonfiction Award for her body of work. Her Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl was a Coretta Scott King Author Honor book. Visit her website at www.tonyaboldenbooks.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kimberly Francisco on June 11, 2018

Frederick Douglass was amazing, but the way his life is written about here is very dry.......more

Goodreads review by Kara on April 19, 2019

In the book Facing Frederick, the author not only shows the importance of Frederick Douglass’s life and accomplishments, but also juxtaposes it with his fascination in photography. This, in turn, made Frederick Douglass one of the most photographed men at a time when photography was still being dev......more

Goodreads review by CrystalIsReading on Storygraph on December 29, 2018

I'd read Frederick Douglass' memoirs before, but no books about him by another author. I'm totally mesmerized not just by his story (as many white people of his time were), but by the man himself. He sounds like an amazing person, and I've been working up to reading one of his many giant biographies......more

Goodreads review by Alicia on June 16, 2018

I'm always interested in Bolden's works because they're well-researched and appealing. This one doesn't disappoint though I reserve my judgement of awesomeness until I see the final copy since I had my hands on an ARC that indicated the final copy would be in full color. I enjoyed the variety of quo......more

Goodreads review by Strawberry3217 on May 22, 2019

As a seventh grade student I was required to read this book for class. Before I began to read I was attracted by its fairly small amount of pages (167), although I soon found out that it reads a lot slower than this. The pages are laced with visuals of important events, people, and newspapers. There......more