biography
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James, C(yril) L(ionel) R(obert))
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| lived:
| (1901–89)
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| biography:
| Writer and journalist, born in Tunapuna, NW Trinidad. He studied at Queens Royal College, moved to England in 1933, and was cricket correspondent for The Manchester Guardian (1933–5). In America (1938–53) he developed Marxist sympathies, for which he was deported. Perhaps his most influential book was The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938), but his most popular book was Beyond the Boundary (1963), a fusion of anecdote, report, analysis, and comment, in which sport and politics are harmoniously and ingeniously conjugated. |
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