9780805039399-0805039392-The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reissued Edition

The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reissued Edition

ISBN-13: 9780805039399
ISBN-10: 0805039392
Edition: 10
Author: James Baldwin
Publication date: 1995
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Format: Paperback 144 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780805039399
ISBN-10: 0805039392
Edition: 10
Author: James Baldwin
Publication date: 1995
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Format: Paperback 144 pages

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The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reissued Edition (ISBN-13: 9780805039399 and ISBN-10: 0805039392), written by authors James Baldwin, was published by Holt Paperbacks in 1995. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Murder & Mayhem (True Crime, Serial Killers, State & Local, United States History, United States, Politics & Government) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reissued Edition (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Murder & Mayhem books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.99.

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This edition of a classic work by one of America's premier writers offers a new Foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell) to the 1995 paperback edition, and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first published in 1985. In his searing and moving essay, James Baldwin explores the Atlanta child murders that took place over a period of twenty-two months in 1979 and 1980. Examining this incident with a reporter's skill and an essayist's insight, he notes the significance of Atlanta as the site of these brutal killings―a city that claimed to be "too busy to hate"―and the permeation of race throughout the case: the black administration in Atlanta; the murdered black children; and Wayne Williams, the black man tried for the crimes. Rummaging through the ruins of American race relations, Baldwin addresses all the hard-to-face issues that have brought us a moment in history where it is terrifying to to be a black child in white America, and where, too often, public officials fail to ask real questions about "justice for all." Baldwin takes a time-specific event and makes it timeless: The Evidence of Things Not Seen offers an incisive look at race in America through a lens at once disturbing and profoundly revealing.

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