The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America PDF

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The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America

Read Online and Download The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America. How the legendary debate between a civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism illuminates America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America's most influential conservative intellectual. The topic was the American dream is at the expense of the American Negro, and no one who has seen the debate can soon forget it. Nicholas Buccola's The Fire Is upon Us is the first book to tell the full story of the event, the radically different paths that led Baldwin and Buckley to it, and how the debate and the decades-long clash between the men illuminates the racial divide that continues to haunt America today. .

The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola

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