Notes Of a Native Son

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin From the back cover: "There is little argument about the writing of James Baldwin, He is one of the finest young craftsmen an American letters and has repeatedly displayed a keen mind and crisp style....In these essays, Baldwin's brilliant, cryptic, penetrating thoughts concern themselves with a man's color and how he is forced to react to it because we have made it important in our social fabric." Chicago Sun-Times "The most gifted young American writer with a black skin has here collected a group of his essays....These pieces show a breadth of vision and an objectivity that is piercing. Much like Ralph Ellison, the author of "Go Tell It On The Mountain" looks at the Negro from the point of view neither of attack nor of defense. His olympian detachment is almost frightening...." Library Journal "...This sheaf of personal essays, written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace, is an effort to retrieve the Negro from the abstractions of the do-gooder and the no goods...." Newsweek Sixth printing, January, 1963