James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time: James Baldwin (Penguin Modern Classics) [1990] paperback Condition:New street marches to hunger strikes

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James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time: James Baldwin (Penguin Modern Classics) [1990] paperback Condition:New street marches to hunger strikes'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers' Barack Obama 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation' James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a