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Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington Robert J. Norrell, Belknap/Harvard, 508 pp., $35 Up From History is a rescue mission aimed at restoring Booker T. Washington’s tarnished reputation and repositioning him among the turn-of-the-20th-century’s pantheon of American pragmatists. Robert J. Norrell’s book scrupulously fulfills this mandate (and then some) with shrewd tactics …
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