Beskrivning
??If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.??-Michael Ondaatje ??The best essayist in this country -a man whose power has always been in his reasoned, biting sarcasm; his insistence on removing layer by layer the hardened skin with which Americans shield themselves from their country.??-The New York Times Book Review ??It will be hard for the reader to see these films in quite the same way again.??-The Christian Science Monitor ??He has taken the old subject of race and made it even more personal probing perhaps more deeply than ever before into American racial practices.??-The Nation ??A provocative discussion.??-Saturday Review