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Title: Fire Next Time, The
Author: BALDWIN JAMES
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/12/1992
Imprint: VINTAGE
Price: $31.00
Publishing status: Active
Basically the finest essay Ive ever read. . . . Baldwin refused to hold anyones hand. He was both direct and beautiful all at once. He did not seem to write to convince you. He wrote beyond you. Ta-Nehisi Coates
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movementand still lights the way to understanding race in America today.
At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwins early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document from the iconic author of If Beale Street Could Talk and Go Tell It on the Mountain. It consists of two letters, written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicleall presented in searing, brilliant prose, The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of literature.
ISBN: 9780679744726