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. Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice “Not everything is lost.One of Esquire ’s Best Biographies of All Time. 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 “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”- Time James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race.
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