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Just Above My Head by James Baldwin
Category: Fiction
The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and t ...Show more
Little Man, Little Man - A Story of Childhood by James Baldwin; Jennifer DeVere Brody (Editor); Nicholas Boggs (Editor); Yoran Cazac (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Books
Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities. Baldwin's only children's book, Little Man, Little Man c ...Show more
NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME by BALDWIN JAMES
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Contains essays that describe what it means to be black in America. This book describes the tragedies that are inflicted by racial segregation and presents a poignant account of the author's first journey to 'the Old Country', the Southern states.
No Name in the Street by James Baldwin
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works.In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early conciousness, the later events that scored hi ...Show more
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Category: Languages and Reference
A new edition of the book many have called James Baldwin's most influential work Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in "Notes of a Native Son "capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as ...Show more
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native So ...Show more
Richard Avedon James Baldwin - Nothing Personal by James Richard (PHT); Baldwin Avedon
Category: Art and Design
Richard Avedon and James Baldwin's landmark 1964 book finally back in print. This meticulous reprint of Richard Avedon and James Baldwin's Nothing Personal explores the complexities and contradictions still at the center of the American experience - especially timely in the age of Donald Trump. Deployin ...Show more
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For bet ...Show more
The 60s : The Story of a Decade by The New Yorker Magazine Staff; Renata Adler (Contribution by); Hannah Arendt (Contribution by); James Baldwin (Contribution by); Truman Capote (Contribution by); Henry Finder (Editor); David Remnick (Introduction by)
Category: REM Anthologies | Series: New Yorker: the Story of a Decade Ser.
The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century--including work by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, Muriel Spark, and John Updike--alongside new assessments ...Show more
The Devil Finds Work by Baldwin James
Category: Politics | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America's self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such fi ...Show more
The Evidence of Things Not Seen - Reissued Edition by James Baldwin; Derrick A. Bell (Foreword by); Janet D. Bell (Foreword by)
Category: True Crime
One of America's most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for the murder of twenty-eight black children in Atlanta to offer this searing indictment of the nation's racial stagnation. This edition of James Baldwin's classic work offers a new foreword by Derrick Bell (with Jane ...Show more