James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98)

An excellent read , the author makes it really easy to imagine life for him and blacks in his era His writing style is very relatable, the issues he highlights are universal I'd say it's a classic

This is ONE HECK OF A GOOD READ, but the thoughts, ideas, suggestions, etc. can get quite profound at times, and if you want to really enjoy the book and gain something personal from it you will almost certainly, from time to time, need to pause and then read again to fully digest some of the things he has to say. I got stuck on Baldwin after I read this!

Je vous recommande d'acheter les 3 tomes: ces textes sont simplement magnifiques. Ces textes vous accompagne, vous poussent à sortir des sentiers battus.

Great print and binding quality. Worth the money.

I'd read Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time" a few years ago in one of the Library of America's volumes of reporting on the civil rights movement and was blown away by the sheer brilliance and power of his writing. "The Fire Next Time" is included in this collection, but there's a whole lot more here, much of it every bit as powerful as "Fire." There's an intensity to Baldwin's essays that forces you to confront many of the terrible truths that lie just below the surface of American life but that we must face up to if we are ever to realize the true vision embodied in America's founding principles. In some respects, it may appear that we've made progress since Baldwin wrote these essays, but I'm sure that if he were still with us, he'd be the first to point out that much of that progress is in fact superficial and illusory, and that we've still got a very long way to go.