The Fire Next Time: Mcdougal Littell Literature Connections - Hardcover

Holt Mcdougal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 003055442X ISBN 13: 9780030554421

Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 2000

Synopsis

A plea and a warning to citizens to examine the actual state of America after a century of emancipation.

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Review

Riveting . . . part of Baldwin's enduring power is that he was not a political thinker. He was interested in the soul's dark spaces much more than in the body politic. (Colm Toibin Telegraph)

The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement ... his seminal work (Guardian)

Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle . . . all presented in searing, brilliant prose (The New York Times Book Review)

Baldwin writes with great passion ... it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy (Sunday Times)

From the Back Cover

'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'

James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice.

'Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle ... all presented in searing, brilliant prose' The New York Times Book Review

'Baldwin writes with great passion ... it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy' Sunday Times

'The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement ... his seminal work' Guardian

Edition details

• Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 003055442X
• ISBN 13: 9780030554421
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192