Begin Again

Glaude, Eddie S.

£9.99

The struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the election of Donald Trump. For James Baldwin, these after times came in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement, when a similar attempt to force a confrontation with the truth of America’s racism was answered with the murders of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. In the years from the publication of ‘The Fire Next Time’ in 1963 to that of ‘No Name in the Street’ in 1972, Baldwin became a more overtly political writer, a change that came at great professional and personal cost. But from that journey, Baldwin emerged with a sense of renewed purpose about the necessity of pushing forward in the face of disillusionment and despair. Glaude suggests we can find hope and guidance through our own after times, this era of shattered promises and white retrenchment.

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Publish Date: 13/01/2022

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*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*

‘A simply wonderful book’ PHILIPPE SANDS

‘Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic’ PANKAJ MISHRA

‘Incredibly moving and stirring’ DIANA EVANS

America is at a crossroads.

Drawing insight and inspiration from Baldwin’s writings, Glaude suggests we can find hope and guidance through an era of shattered promises and white retrenchment. Seamlessly combining biography with history, memoir and trenchant analysis of our moment, Begin Again bears witness to the difficult truth of race in America. It is at once a searing exploration that lays bare the tangled web of race, trauma and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we all must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a more just future.

‘An essayistic marvel . . . deeply personal and yet immensely readable’ SARA COLLINS, GUARDIAN

‘An urgent, deeply interesting book’ RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVER

Winner of the Stowe Prize 2021
Shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2021

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Weight 219 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 17 mm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

272

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

305.800973 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K