James Baldwin

Four Great Americans is a collection of biographical sketches of four of America's most celebrated figures: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln. Written in James Baldwin's engaging style, this book brings to life the stories of these men who helped shape American history. Through their courage, wisdom, and leadership, they inspired generations of Americans to strive for greatness. This book is an excellent introduction to the lives and legacies of these four great Americans, and it will be enjoyed by readers of all ages.

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Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Black. James Baldwin investigated these murders, the Black administration in Atlanta, and Wayne Williams, the Black man tried for the crimes. Because there was only evidence to convict Williams for the murders of two men, the children's cases were closed, offering no justice to the families or the country. Baldwin's incisive analysis implicates the failures of integration as the guilt party, arguing, "There could be no more devastating proof of this assault than the slaughter of the children." As Stacey Abrams writes in her foreword, "The humanity of black children, of black men and women, of black lives, has ever been a conundrum for America. Forty years on, Baldwin's writing reminds us that we have never resolved the core query: Do black lives matter? Unequivocally, the moral answer is yes, but James Baldwin refuses such rhetorical comfort." In this, his last book, by excavating American race relations Baldwin exposes the hard-to-face ingrained issues and demands that we all reckon with them.

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Utsedd till en av tidernas 100 bästa böcker av The Guardian I sin epokgörande essäsamling kartlägger James Baldwin vad det innebär att vara svart i det moderna USA. Baldwin räknas sedan länge till 1900-talets främsta amerikanska författare; tillsammans med Langston Hughes, Richard Wright och Toni Morrison utgör han ryggraden i landets svarta litteratur. När En svart mans anteckningar - utsedd till en av 1900-talets bästa böcker av såväl Modern Library som The Guardian - gavs ut 1955 hade bokens tio essäer tidigare publicerats i tidskrifter som Harper's Magazine, Partisan Review och The New Leader. Titelessän är ett minnesarbete: En paranoid far dör i tuberkulos, samtidigt som författaren för första gången upplever den amerikanska söderns statsrasism. Texterna speglar den klarsyn, vrede, intelligens och mänsklighet som gjort Baldwins böcker till moderna klassiker. För första gången på 65 år tillgängliggörs nu James Baldwins mästerverk på nytt, här i reviderad översättning, och med ett nyskrivet förord av författaren och journalisten Judith Kiros. JAMES BALDWIN föddes 1924 och växte upp i Harlem under fattiga omständigheter. Vid 24 års ålder flyttade han till Paris, och levde därefter större delen av sitt liv i Frankrike. Förutom romaner och essäer skrev han dramatik och poesi. Han var aktivist i Medborgarrättsrörelsen och The Gay Liberation Movement.» James Baldwins brinnande samhällskritik ger ny genklang i ett splittrat USA.« | Washington Post»James Baldwins mest definierande verk - och hans bästa.« | Time »Jag önskar att jag kunde sätta denna bok i händerna på varje amerikan - eller rättare sagt varje människa.« | Celeste Ng, The Guardian

James Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers. Available for the first time in a stand-alone edition, Nothing Personal is Baldwin's deep probe into the American condition. Considering the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020--which were met with tear gas and rubber bullets the same year white supremacists entered the US Capitol with little resistance, openly toting flags of the Confederacy--Baldwin's documentation of his own troubled times cuts to the core of where we find ourselves today. Baldwin's thoughts move through an interconnected range of questions, from America's fixation on eternal youth, to its refusal to recognize the past, its addiction to consumerism, and the lovelessness that fuels it in its cities and popular culture. He recounts his own encounter with police in a scene disturbingly similar to those we see today documented with ever increasing immediacy. This edition also includes a new foreword from interdisciplinary scholar Imani Perry and an afterword from noted Baldwin scholar Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Both explore and situate the essay within the broader context of Baldwin's work, the Movement for Black Lives, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the presidency of Donald Trump. Nothing Personal is both a eulogy and a declaration of will. In bringing this work into the twenty-first century, readers new and old will take away fundamental and recurring truths about life in the US. It is both a call to action, and an appeal to love and to life.

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Fifty Famous Stories Retold (1895), the classic collection of lore recounted by James Baldwin, serves as an early foundation for the love of literature. This volume was widely used in the United States public school system as a primer of many of the most enduring stories of Western culture. What all these stories share is their indelible mark in the worlds of letters, art, music, and drama; while these are the elemental blocks for continued literary studies, these tales of legend and history are timelessly delightful in their ability to charm and dazzle young readers. Among the fifty stories in the collection are; “A Story of Robin Hood,” “Sir Walter Raleigh,” “Pocahontas,” “George Washington and his Hatchet,” “The Story of William Tell,” “How Napoleon Crossed the Alps,” “Androclus and the Lion,” “Julius Caesar,” and “Diogenes the Wise Man” as well as many lesser known, yet indispensable tales. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Fifty Famous Stories Retold is both modern and readable.

Fifty Famous Stories Retold (1895), the classic collection of lore recounted by James Baldwin, serves as an early foundation for the love of literature. This volume was widely used in the United States public school system as a primer of many of the most enduring stories of Western culture. What all these stories share is their indelible mark in the worlds of letters, art, music, and drama; while these are the elemental blocks for continued literary studies, these tales of legend and history are timelessly delightful in their ability to charm and dazzle young readers. Among the fifty stories in the collection are; “A Story of Robin Hood,” “Sir Walter Raleigh,” “Pocahontas,” “George Washington and his Hatchet,” “The Story of William Tell,” “How Napoleon Crossed the Alps,” “Androclus and the Lion,” “Julius Caesar,” and “Diogenes the Wise Man” as well as many lesser known, yet indispensable tales. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Fifty Famous Stories Retold is both modern and readable.

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