The Last of the Black Emperors : The Hollow Comeback of Marion Barry in a New Age of Black Leaders
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The listing describes The Last of the Black Emperors : The Hollow Comeback of Marion Barry in a New Age of Black Leaders by Jonetta Rose Barras as a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. The available edition details are 1998 • Bancroft Pr • 309 pages.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9780963124661
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