Since its original publication in, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in harlem, the protest novel, movies, and african americans abroa...Since its original publication in, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in harlem, the protest novel, movies, and african americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. --back cover.