The Fire Next Time
by:
James Baldwin (author)
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next...
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At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time stands as one of the essential works of our literature.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781482977455
Publish date: 2008-02-01
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America Sound library
Minutes: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
African American,
Politics,
Race
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