James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98)

James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98)
Title James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98) PDF eBook
Author James Baldwin
Publisher Library of America James Baldw
Pages 904
Release 1998-02
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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"Chronology. Notes.

Truth and Lies

Truth and Lies
Title Truth and Lies PDF eBook
Author Tamara Williams
Publisher James Lorimer & Company
Pages 136
Release 2002-05-22
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9781550287561

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When the police investigation into a vicious attack on Erin's friend comes up empty, Erin decides to take matters into her own hands.

John Ford in Focus

John Ford in Focus
Title John Ford in Focus PDF eBook
Author Kevin L. Stoehr
Publisher McFarland
Pages 245
Release 2007-12-06
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0786432152

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"This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of his life and career. Part one provides an overview of Ford's importance in the early development of cinema. Part two focuses on Ford's personal life. Part three explores theories that explai

James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories (LOA #97)

James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories (LOA #97)
Title James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories (LOA #97) PDF eBook
Author James Baldwin
Publisher Library of America James Baldw
Pages 1002
Release 1998-02
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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Contains 4 of James Baldwin's early works.

Insurgent Intellectual

Insurgent Intellectual
Title Insurgent Intellectual PDF eBook
Author Brendan Taylor
Publisher Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Pages 268
Release 2012
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 981441462X

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With a distinguished career spanning more than four decades, Professor Desmond Ball is one of the world's greatest scholars of strategy and defence, Australia's home-grown giant. In this collection of essays, leading political, media and academic figures, including former United States President Jimmy Carter, pay tribute to his remarkable contributions. From a base at the Australian National University in Canberra, Professor Ball has unflinchingly researched topics from Cold War nuclear strategy and the defence of Australia to spy scandals and Southeast Asian paramilitaries. His roaming intellect, appetite for getting the facts and commitment to publishing on sensitive topics ensure he is a towering figure who has provided impeccable service to Strategic Studies, the Asia-Pacific region and the Australian community.

Reporting Civil Rights Vol. 1 (LOA #137)

Reporting Civil Rights Vol. 1 (LOA #137)
Title Reporting Civil Rights Vol. 1 (LOA #137) PDF eBook
Author Clayborne Carson
Publisher Library of America Classic Jou
Pages 1066
Release 2003-01-06
Genre History
ISBN

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Presents over one hundred newspaper and magazine articles and book excerpts that chronicle the Civil Rights movement from 1941 to 1963, and includes a chronology, journalist biographies, and photographs.

The Fire Next Time

The Fire Next Time
Title The Fire Next Time PDF eBook
Author James Baldwin
Publisher
Pages 270
Release 2017
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9783836551038

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First published in 1963, James Baldwin's A Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called ldquo;Negro problemrdquo;. As remarkable for its masterful prose as it is for its uncompromising account of black experience in the United States, it is considered to this day one of the most articulate and influential expressions of 1960s race relations. The book consists of two essays, ldquo;My Dungeon Shook mdash; Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,rdquo; and ldquo;Down At The Cross mdash; Letter from a Region of My Mind.rdquo; It weaves thematic threads of love, faith, and family into a candid assault on the hypocrisy of the so-say ldquo;land of the freerdquo;, insisting on the inequality implicit to American society. ldquo;You were born where you were born and faced the future that you facedrdquo;, Baldwin writes to his nephew, ldquo;because you were black and for no other reason.rdquo; His profound sense of injustice is matched by a robust belief in ldquo;monumental dignityrdquo;, in patience, empathy, and the possibility of transforming America into ldquo;what America must become.rdquo;