Description: Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own Author: Glaude Jr., Eddie S. Title: Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own Publication: Crown, June 2020 Edition: Reprint Description: Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same."--Time James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment? One of the Best Books of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune - One of Esquire's Best Biographies of All Time - Winner of the Stowe Prize - Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice "Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again."--James Baldwin Begin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America's ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. Just as in Baldwin's "after times," argues Eddie S. Glaude Jr., when white Americans met the civil rights movement's call for truth and justice with blind rage and the murders of movement leaders, so in our moment were the Obama presidency and the birth of Black Lives Matter answered with the ascendance of Trump and the violent resurgence of white nationalism. In these brilliant and stirring pages, Glaude finds hope and guidance in Baldwin as he mixes biography--drawn partially from newly uncovered Baldwin interviews--with history, memoir, and poignant analysis of our current moment to reveal the painful cycle of Black resistance and white retrenchment. As Glaude bears witness to the difficult truth of racism's continued grip on the national soul, Begin Again is a searing exploration of the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America. Fifth hardcover printing. Front free endpaper clipped at top corner. Includes a bookplate signed by Eddie Glaude, Jr. Seller ID: 333224 Atlanta's only in-town, full-service bookstore since 1989. For more than three decades, A Cappella Books has been serving the Atlanta community with our unique selection of new, used, and antiquarian titles. Together with a wide range of partners across Atlanta, we bring great authors to the city all year long for book signings and literary events, and our signed titles garner us customers from all around the world. From our humble beginnings in Little Five Points to our cozy current shop in Inman Park, we're always in the business of buying, selling, and trading used books. All orders ship within two business days. Standard mail is USPS Media Mail.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
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Author: Glaude Jr., Eddie S
Publisher: Crown
Year Printed: 2020
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket, Signed
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
