The Fire Next Time: Collected Essays - Notes Of A Native Son; Nobody Knows My Name; The Fire Next Time; No Name In The Street; The Devils Finds Work; Other Essays (Penguin Modern Classics: Vol. 98)

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Synopsis
'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers' Barack Obama 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice. 'Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle ... all presented in searing, brilliant prose' The New York Times Book Review'Baldwin writes with great passion ... it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy' Sunday Times'The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement ... his seminal work' Guardian
Copyright:
2004

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
96 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780141963778
Related ISBNs:
9780140182750, 9781802067200
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
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Copyrighted By:
James Baldwin
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology
Grade Levels:
Twelfth grade
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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