The Fire Next Time (Magill Book Reviews)

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Baldwin frames the substance of his sermon inside a dedicatory letter to his nephew, “On the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emanciption.” He advises the nephew to accept white Americans--and do so lovingly--even though they have established a society that considers most black men worthless. Why? Because, says Baldwin, son of a minister and himself a former boy evangelist, all men are brothers and America is the black as well as white man’s house.

He then testifies to this text with an account of his youth and young manhood, covering events he previously narrated in...

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