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The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name in the Street; The Devil FindsWork: Introduction by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

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Four of Baldwin's critically-acclaimed, bestselling essay collections in a single volume, with a terrific new introduction by Eddie S. Glaude. "[Baldwin] is an artist, a writer, in conversation with a wide range of influences (inheritances and ancestors) that shape what he sees and how he inhabits the genre."

A major hardcover compendium of nonfiction by one of America's 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 Everyman's Library collection includes his bestselling, galvanizing essay The Fire Next Time—which gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement of the 1960s and still lights the way to understanding race in America today—a...

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