โ Scribed by James Baldwin
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer
Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written.
"A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity." --Langston Hughes, The New York Times Book Review
"Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace." --Time
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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