{"product_id":"the-fire-this-time-paperback","title":"The Fire This Time - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRandall Kenan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kenan continues Baldwin's legendary tradition of 'telling it on the mountain' by giving a voice to the unvarnished truth.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames Baldwin's \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time\u003c\/i\u003e was one of the essential books of the sixties, and one of the most galvanizing statements of the American civil rights movement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Fire This Time\u003c\/i\u003e, inspired by Baldwin, Kenan combines elements of memoir and commentary, casting a critical eye from his childhood to the present to observe that, while there have been dramatic advances since the sixties, some issues continue to bedevil us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStarting with W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King, Jr., Kenan expands the discussion to include many powerful Aamerican personalities, such as Oprah Winfrey, O. J. Simpson, Clarence Thomas, Rodney King, Sean \"Puffy\" Combs, George Foreman, and Barack Obama. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished to mark the forty-fifth anniversary of James Baldwin's epochal work, \u003ci\u003eThe Fire This Time\u003c\/i\u003e is itself a piercing consideration of the times, and an impassioned call to transcend them.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRandall Kenan (1963-2020) was the author of the biography \u003ci\u003eJames Baldwin: American Writer\u003c\/i\u003e, and the collection of oral histories \u003ci\u003eWalking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the novel \u003ci\u003eA Visitation of Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e, and the short story collection\u003ci\u003e Let the Dead Bury Their Dead\u003c\/i\u003e. His last work of fiction, \u003ci\u003eIf I Had Two Wings\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and over his career, his work was awarded numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and numerous other prizes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 6.8 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 12, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42697143025727,"sku":"9781685890025","price":21.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/7a592a577775ab8637653e22ef19d74d.webp?v=1765008611","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-fire-this-time-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}