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Notes of a Native Son
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Notes of a Native Son

by James Baldwin

Recommended by Cory Booker

Recommended by Cory Booker

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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Nonfiction, History, and History.

A new edition of the book many have called James Baldwin?s most influential workWritten during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the ...

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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Nonfiction, History, and History.

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Cory Booker

@NancyEpstein7 Great book. My favorite is The Fire Next Time.

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