Nothing Personal by James BaldwinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.3 MBOverview: 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 […]
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone A Novel by James BaldwinRequirements: .MP3 reader, 410.24 MBOverview: At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. […]
The Devil Finds Work by James BaldwinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.9 MBOverview: Bette Davis’s eyes, Joan Crawford’s bitchy elegance, Stepin Fetchit’s stereotype, Sidney Poitier’s superhuman black man… These are the movie stars and the qualities that influenced James Baldwin… and now become part of his incisive look at racism in American movies. Baldwin challenges the underlying […]
James Baldwin’s Another Country: Bookmarked by Kim McLarinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.81 MBOverview: Set mainly in Greenwich Village and Harlem, James Baldwin’s 1962 novel, Another Country, is a groundbreaking work of sexual, racial and artistic passions that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality. In her volume in Ig’s acclaimed Bookmarked series, award winning […]
James Baldwin: A Collection of Speeches and Lectures by James BaldwinRequirements: .MP3 reader, 521 MBOverview: James Baldwin was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western society, most notably in regard to the mid-20th-century […]