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A major hardcover compendium of nonfiction by one of Americas most brilliant essayists, timed to the celebration of his centenary
Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual James Baldwin is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. This Everymans Library collection includes his bestselling, galvanizing essay The Fire Next Timewhich gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement of the 1960s and still lights the way to understanding race in America todayalong with three additional brilliant works of nonfiction by this seminal chronicler and analyst of culture. From No Name In the Streets extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies to the passionate, probing, controversial (The Atlantic) Nobody Knows My Name and the incisive criticism of American movies in The Devil Finds Work, Baldwins stunning prose over and over proves relevant to our contemporary struggle for equality, justice, and social change.
Everymans Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the authors life and times.
Author: James Baldwin
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Everymans Library
Published: 07/09/2024
Series: Everymans Library Contemporary Classics
Pages: 520
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.25w x 1.15d
ISBN: 9781101908471
Language: English
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