Nicholas Buccola

Broschiertes Buch

The Fire Is Upon Us

James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America

Beschreibung

On 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.

Autor

Nicholas Buccola is the author of The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, and many other publications. He is the Elizabeth and Morris Glicksman Chair in Political Science at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. Twitter @buccola_nick

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 9mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780691210773
• ISBN-10: 0691210772
• Artikelnr.: 58816993

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"The great achievement of Buccola's The Fire Is upon Us is to make one such moment—in which this promise was fought over—come to life."---Gregor Baszak, Public Books