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Once described as the 'best-known American in the world', Paul Robeson has been largely forgotten since his death in 1975. But during his lifetime he captivated audiences as a singer, actor and globetrotting political activist. The Australian author Jeff Sparrow has traced his many talents in a new biography called "No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson".

(Photo: Paul Robeson in 1958. Credit: Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)