Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Glaude is the author of number books, including Democracy in Black- How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul. He hails from Moss Point, Mississippi, a small town on gulf coast, and is a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.
I loved Eddie Glaude's Begin Again. James Baldwin is a man for our
moment: in a time of Black Lives Matter we've come to think about
our past, our colonial history, enslavement, matters of race and
identity. The beauty of this book is not just that it's deeply
personal, but that it's also extraordinarily scholarly . . . You're
left with an understanding of the extraordinary modernity,
relevance and the immense power of James Baldwin. It's a simply
wonderful book
*Philippe Sands*
Begin Again is an essayistic marvel, circling and folding back on
itself as Baldwin's musings in the past and Glaude's analysis of
the present give meaning to each other . . . a scholarly, deeply
personal, and yet immensely readable meditation, a masterful
reckoning with the "latest betrayal" of the American ideal
*Guardian*
Timely, powerful . . . Glaude invites us with him to "read Baldwin
to the end" and reveals a writer, not spent, but rather
illuminating the path beyond despair - the work of a saint if ever
there was such a thing
*Observer*
A call to confront the truth and legacies of the traumatic birth of
America . . . urgent . . . original
*History Today, Books of the Year*
Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic
*Pankaj Mishra, author of The Age of Anger*
An unparalleled masterpiece of social criticism. Glaude thinks
alongside America's finest essayist, matching the master's
firepower, brilliance, courage, and sensitivity at every turn . . .
breathtaking
*Imani Perry, author of Breathe and Looking for Lorraine*
Incredibly moving and stirring. Begin Again. . . underlines just
how relevant and crucial Baldwin's work has always been and always
will be
*Diana Evans, author of Ordinary People*
A powerful indictment of racial injustice in the US written in
conversation with the writings of James Baldwin . . . whose wisdom
should be part of our conversations today
*New Statesman*
Begin Again speaks to a global Black Lives Matter movement . . . A
riveting read
*Raymond Antrobus, author of The Perseverance*
The magic of Begin Again is that it allows us to ponder Baldwin
both in his perilous era and in our own. Remarkable, and remarkably
relevant
*Tracy K. Smith, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning Life on Mars*
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