Booker T. Washington was born into slavery, taught himself to read against every obstacle, walked hundreds of miles to attend school, and went on to build the Tuskegee Institute from a shanty into a world famous university.
Up from Slavery is his own account of that climb, and it is one of the most practical motivational books ever written: a philosophy of work, skill, thrift and dignity earned brick by literal brick. Generations of strivers on every continent have drawn fuel from it, and its energy has not aged a day.
