| Edition |
1st Vintage International ed. |
| Description |
xxx, 365 pages ; 21 cm |
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Men lcdgt |
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New Yorkers (New York State) lcdgt |
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African Americans lcdgt |
| Note |
A collection of essays, speeches, letters, reviews, etc. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-365). |
| Contents |
Looking for James Baldwin -- Essays and speeches. Mass culture and the creative artist : some personal notes -- A word from writer directly to reader -- From Nationalism, colonialism, and the United States : one minute to twelve : a forum -- Theater : the Negro in and out -- Is A Raisin in the Sun a lemon in the dark? -- As much truth as one can bear -- Geraldine Page : bird of light -- From What's the reason why? : a symposium by best-selling authors : James Baldwin on Another Country -- The artist's struggle for integrity -- We can change the country -- Why I stopped hating Shakespeare -- The uses of the blues -- What price freedom? -- The white problem -- Black power -- The price may be too high -- The nigger we invent -- Speech from the Soledad rally -- A challenge to bicentennial candidates -- The news from all the northern cities is, to understate it, grim : the state of the union is catastrophic -- Lorraine Hansberry at the summit -- On language, race, and the black writer -- Of the sorrow songs : the cross of redemption -- Black English : a dishonest argument -- This far and no further -- On being white ... and other lies -- Blacks and Jews -- To crush a serpent -- Profiles. The fight : Patterson vs. Liston -- Sidney Poitier -- Letters. Letters from a journey -- The international war crimes tribunal -- Anti-semitism and black power -- An open letter to my sister Angela Y. Davis -- A letter to prisoners -- The fire this time : letter to the bishop -- Forewords and afterwords. A quarter-century of un-Americana -- Memoirs of a bastard angel : a fifty-year literary and erotic odyssey by Harold Norse -- The Negro in New York : an informal social history, 1626-1940 / edited by Roi Ottley and William J. Weatherby -- Daddy was a number runner / by Louise Merriwether -- A lonely rage / by Bobby Seale -- Book reviews. Best short stories / by Maxim Gorky -- Mother / by Maxim Gorky -- The Amboy dukes / by Irving Shulman -- The sure hand of God / by Erskine Caldwell -- The sling and the arrow / by Stuart Engstrand -- Novels and stories, by Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by V.S. Pritchett; and Robert Louis Stevenson / by David Daiches -- Flood crest / by Hodding Carter -- The moth / by James M. Cain -- The portable Russian reader / edited by Bernard Guilbert Guerney -- The person and the common good / by Jacques Maritain -- The Negro newspaper / by Vishnu V. Oak -- Jim Crow America / by Earl Conrad -- The high cost of prejudice / by Bucklin Moon -- The Protestant Church and the Negro / by Frank S. Loescher -- Color and conscience / by Buell G. Gallagher -- From slavery to freedom / by John Hope Franklin : The Negro in America / by Arnold Rose -- The cool world / by Warren Miller -- Essays / by Seymour Krim -- The arrangement / by Elia Kazan -- A man's life : an autobiography / by Roger Wilkins -- Fiction. The death of a prophet. |
| Summary |
A treasury of essays, articles, and reviews by the late author includes pieces that explore such topics as religious fundamentalism, Russian literature, and the possibility of an African-American president. |
| Subject |
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
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Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. (OCoLC)fst00038941
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American essays -- African American authors.
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American essays -- 20th century.
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Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
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American essays. (OCoLC)fst00807040
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Speeches, addresses, etc., American. (OCoLC)fst01129325
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Added Author |
Kenan, Randall.
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| ISBN |
9780307275967 |
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0307275965 |
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