C L R James : Cricket's Philosopher King
Known as?The Cricketing Marxist', Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901?89) was one of the leading black intellectuals of the 20th century, a Marxist theorist of the first rank, and also one of the finest writers on cricket, with his legendary book Beyond a Boundary. This seeming paradox is reflected in other areas of his life and work: the product of a British-style education and fanatical cricketer who never abandoned the values the sport inculcated in him, he was a Trotskyite expelled from the USA during the McCarthy era who was a friend and inspiration to a generation of leaders of newly-i
eBook, English, 2013
HopeRoad, New York, 2013