# Nothing Personal - Hardcover

by **James Baldwin** (Author), **Imani Perry** (Foreword by), **Eddie S. Glaude Jr** (Afterword by)

**James Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers.**

Available for the first time in a stand-alone edition, _Nothing Personal_ is Baldwin's deep probe into the American condition. Considering the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020--which were met with tear gas and rubber bullets the same year white supremacists entered the US Capitol with little resistance, openly toting flags of the Confederacy--Baldwin's documentation of his own troubled times cuts to the core of where we find ourselves today.

Baldwin's thoughts move through an interconnected range of questions, from America's fixation on eternal youth, to its refusal to recognize the past, its addiction to consumerism, and the lovelessness that fuels it in its cities and popular culture. He recounts his own encounter with police in a scene disturbingly similar to those we see today documented with ever increasing immediacy. This edition also includes a new foreword from interdisciplinary scholar Imani Perry and an afterword from noted Baldwin scholar Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Both explore and situate the essay within the broader context of Baldwin's work, the Movement for Black Lives, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the presidency of Donald Trump.

_Nothing Personal_ is both a eulogy and a declaration of will. In bringing this work into the twenty-first century, readers new and old will take away fundamental and recurring truths about life in the US. It is both a call to action, and an appeal to love and to life.

### Author Biography

**James Baldwin** (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, and one of America's foremost writers. His writing explores palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America. A Harlem, New York, native, he lived periodically in exile in the south of France and in Turkey. He is the author of several novels and books of nonfiction, including _Notes of a Native Son_, _Go Tell It on the Mountain_, _Giovanni's Room_, _Another Country_, _Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone_, _If Beale Street Could Talk_, _Just Above My Head_, _The Fire Next Time_, _No Name in the Street_, and _The Evidence of Things Not Seen_, and of the poetry collection _Jimmy's Blues_.

**Imani Perry** is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her books include _Breathe_ and _Looking for Lorraine_.

**Eddie S. Glaude Jr.** is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University. His books include _Begin Again_ and _Democracy in Black_.

**Number of Pages:** 104

**Dimensions:** 0.7 x 7.1 x 4.9 IN

**Publication Date:** May 04, 2021

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