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Notes of a Native Son

By James Baldwin
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Unabridged — 5 hours, 3 minutes
Audiobook
$16.95
By James Baldwin
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Unabridged — 5 hours, 3 minutes
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Trailblazer. Activist. Visionary. James Baldwin inspired countless artists with his pointed, elegant and electric work — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxane Gay, and Jason Reynolds, to name a few. Showcasing his inimitable voice through essays on culture, politics and identity, Notes of a Native Son is a revolutionary, necessary read.

At last, a new audio edition of the book many have called James Baldwin's most influential work!

Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era. Writing as an artist, activist, and social...