James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

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We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation.

James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice.

Author: James Baldwin

Paperback Published 25 January 1990 99 pages

'Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle ... all presented in searing, brilliant prose.'-The New York Times Book Review

'Baldwin writes with great passion ... it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy.'-Sunday Times

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