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A Rap on Race One Day when I Was Lost No Name in the Street If Beale Street Could Talk Giovanni's Room Just Above My Head The Devil Finds Work Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone The Amen Corner James Baldwin Going to Meet the Man: Stories Blues for Mister Charlie The Evidence of Things Not Seen Nobody Knows My Name The Fire Next Time Jimmy's Blues: Selected Poems The Price of the Ticket Go Tell It on the Mountain
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With burning passion, the authority of experience, and a sharp, epigrammatic wit, these essays articulate issues of race, democracy, and American identity. This edition--the most comprehensive gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction ever published--presents the complete texts of the landmark collections "Notes of a Native Son" (1955) and "Nobody Knows My Name" (1961); "The Fire Next Time" (1963), a classic analysis of America's racial divide; "No Name in the Street" (1972); and "The Devil Finds Work" (1976); and 36 more essays, including nine never before collected.
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