Publisher's Synopsis
First published in 1963, James Baldwin's 'The Fire Next Time' stabbed at the heart of America's so-called 'negro problem'. As remarkable for its masterful prose as it is for its frank and personal ccount of the black experience in America, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations, weaving thematic threads of love, faith, and family into a candid assault on the hypocrisy of the 'land of the free'. Now, his rich, raw, and ever relevant prose is reprinted in a letterpress edition with more than 100 photographs from Steve Schapiro, who travelled to the American South with Baldwin for Life magazine.
