Drawing on new scholarship, nineteenth-century newspapers, a collection of Douglass's correspondence, and other resources, Tonya Bolden's Facing Frederick captures what a multifaceted man he was. Alongside the many high points in his rags-to-riches life, Facing Frederick chronicles the shortcomings, controversies, and low points in Douglass's life as well. This is the story of a great and mighty abolitionist and orator, but also of a newspaperman, women's rights activist, statesman, diplomat, public servant, author of more than one autobiography, and lover of travel, music, and books. And photography-Bolden uses the nineteenth century's most-photographed American's love of photography to help tell his story. Incorporating captivating images of the icon, his family, and his colleagues along with paintings, prints, and ephemera, Bolden provides a compelling and absorbing portrait of this relentless warrior for liberty and justice for all. Book jacket.