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James Baldwin: The FBI File
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- ISBN
- 9781628727371
- Book Title
- James Baldwin : the FBI File
- Item Length
- 10in
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History, Social Science
- Topic
- American / African American, Literary, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Item Width
- 8in
- Item Weight
- 47.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 440 Pages
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Available in book form for the first time, the FBI's secret dossier on the legendary and controversial writer. Decades before Black Lives Matter returned James Baldwin to prominence, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI considered the Harlem-born author the most powerful broker between black art and black power. Baldwin's 1,884-page FBI file, covering the period from 1958 to 1974, was the largest compiled on any African American artist of the Civil Rights era. This collection of once-secret documents, never before published in book form, captures the FBI's anxious tracking of Baldwin's writings, phone conversations, and sexual habits--and Baldwin's defiant efforts to spy back at Hoover and his G-men. James Baldwin: The FBI File reproduces over one hundred original FBI records, selected by the noted literary historian whose award-winning book, F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature , brought renewed attention to bureau surveillance. William J. Maxwell also provides an introduction exploring Baldwin's enduring relevance in the time of Black Lives Matter along with running commentaries that orient the reader and offer historical context, making this book a revealing look at a crucial slice of the American past--and present.
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1628727373
ISBN-13
9781628727371
eBay Product ID (ePID)
227789153
Product Key Features
Book Title
James Baldwin : the FBI File
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, Literary, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
440 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
8in
Item Weight
47.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3552.A45z822 2017
Reviews
"This compendium offers an unquestionably unique look into the life of one of America's most esteemed thinkers, whose work has seen a resurgence as a centerpiece of the Black Lives Matter movement."-- Publishers Weekly "Maxwell presents the actual documentation in chronological order, using brief discussions to provide valuable context . . . He adeptly curates the strange hoard of documentation, but the primary sources will be most appreciated by completists. An unsettling demonstration of how a paranoid, reactionary government can treat significant artists."-- Kirkus "Disturbing, inspiring, and eye-opening . . . an enlightening and outrageous portrait of the FBI's harassing surveillance of a brilliant 20th-century writer and activist."-- Shelf Awareness "Maxwell should be congratulated . . . James Baldwin: The FBI File is exciting and humorous in all the right and wrong historical ways."-- Atlanta Black Star Advocate> "Baldwin's FBI file [is] a valuable biographical, social and at times literary critical document. . . . Maxwell offers wry and often witty interpretation of the documents. . . . [His] work is intended to show that Black Writers Matter--or that they used to, especially during the period in which Hoover held office as Director of the FBI."-- Times Literary Supplement
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2016-058378
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Yes
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