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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time
Author: James Baldwin
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocativ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780440325420
ISBN-10: 0440325420
Publication Date: 11/1/1985
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4.5 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Laurel
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, 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.