This author described how his decision to join the Maple club delayed his political development and set him off from Learie Constantine and Wilton St. Hill for many years. A Joseph O'Neill essay riffs on a book by this non-Kipling author in asking “What do they know of America who only America know?” A book by this author decries any attempt to understand the Victorian era without considering W. G. (*) Grace; that book is an autobiographical history of cricket titled Beyond a Boundary. Conversations with Léon Damas inspired a book by this author that compared Pericles and Jefferson to Toussaint L'Ouverture and argued the Haitian Revolution was the inheritor of French radical tradition. For 10 points, which Marxist Trinidadian scholar wrote The Black Jacobins? ■END■
ANSWER: C.L.R. James [or Cyril Lionel Robert James]
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