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scottsararenee 's review for:
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
reflective
medium-paced
Baldwin’s analysis of racial conditions in the 60s is still relevant today. I think you could slap someone else’s name on this and, if they weren’t familiar with Baldwin’s style and a few historical instances were disguised, they could be convinced it was about today’s political climate. This unfortunately proves his doubts about any positive change to be well-founded.
His points are made so eloquently that, if it weren’t a loan from the library, more of this book would have been underlined than not. His solid voice and confident grasp on what he wanted to say combined to create incredibly poignant and powerful sentences that flowed together seamlessly.