The Fire Next Time
- ISBN-10
- 067974472X
- ISBN-13
- 9780679744726
- Series
- The Fire Next Time
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 106
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- James Baldwin
Description
The powerful evocation of a childhood in Harlem that helped to galvanize the early days of the civil rights movement examines the deep consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic. Reissue. 20,000 first printing.
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