It takes the average reader 5 hours and 47 minutes to read Dancing Down the Barricades by Matthew Frye Jacobson
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"Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business-from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV-Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it? Sammy Davis Jr. was at once a pioneering, barrier-busting, anti-Jim Crow activist and someone who was widely associated with accommodationism and wannabe...
Dancing Down the Barricades by Matthew Frye Jacobson is 343 pages long, and a total of 86,779 words.
This makes it 116% the length of the average book. It also has 106% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 54 minutes to read Dancing Down the Barricades aloud.
Dancing Down the Barricades is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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