2566. Booker T. Washington:The Making of a Black Leader 1856-1901, by Louis R. Harlan (read 9 Jan 1994) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1984) (Bancroft Prize in 1973) This is the first volume of Harlan's biography of Booker T. Washington. It was published in 1973. Much of this book was familiar, because most of it was covered in Up From Slavery (which I read on 5 Jan 1994. B.T.W. was far too accommodating. The furor over T.R. having him to dinner at the White House in October 1901 is really sickening to read about, and it is also sickening that TR should have later decided that it was a mistake to have him to dinner.. Certainly today's political correctness is far far preferable to the awful attitude that was so casually accepted in BTW's time. This book is well done, and does not gloss over BTW's faults, but still there was much that was praiseworthy about him. ( )