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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time
Author: James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time is a plea and a warning--a plea that all Americans look to the tru state of their land one hundred years after Emancipation--a warning of what may happen if they do not. "If we" James Baldwin writes "do not falter in our duty now. we may be able...to end the racial nightmare...and change the history of the world."
ISBN: 404622
Publication Date: 1/1/1963
Pages: 120
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Publisher: The Dial Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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An autobiographical book of his early years as preacher. Dated, yet his message still holds true, although the players and events may have changed.
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In passion, poetry, hate, and love, but especially love, in the highest sense, Mr. Baldwin explains what it means to be a Negro in America. If ever there was a compassionate and eloquent sermon for our time, demanding the most agonizing self-examination from anyone who reads, this is it...great...extraordinary.
So eloquent in its passion and so scorching in its candor that it is bound to unsettle any reader...as a novelist and writer of uncommon talent, he plunges to the human heart of the matter.


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