As Glaude bears witness to the difficult truth of racism's continued grip on the national soul, Begin Again is a searing exploration of the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America.

In these brilliant and stirring pages, Glaude finds hope and guidance in Baldwin as he mixes biography-drawn partially from newly uncovered Baldwin interviews-with history, memoir, and poignant analysis of our current moment to reveal the painful cycle of Black resistance and white retrenchment. Glaude Jr., when white Americans met the civil rights movement's call for truth and justice with blind rage and the murders of movement leaders, so in our moment were the Obama presidency and the birth of Black Lives Matter answered with the ascendance of Trump and the violent resurgence of white nationalism. In this powerful and elegant book on James Baldwin, Eddie Glaude weaves together a biography, a meditation, a literary analysis, and a moral essay on America. in conversation with Susana Morris for a celebration of Begin Again: James Baldwins America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our. Just as in Baldwin's 'after times,' argues Eddie S.

If one refuses abdication, one begins again.'-James Baldwin Begin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America's ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment? One of the Best Books of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune - One of Esquire's Best Biographies of All Time - Winner of the Stowe Prize - Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice 'Not everything is lost. James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 'A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.'- Time Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Ownīook Condition: New Publisher: Crown, June 2020.

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