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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Among the most valuable contributions of Vogel's book is an entire chapter devoted to Baldwin's as yet unpublished play,
The Welcome Table. . . . Vogel's adept interpretation of the play . . . is among the strongest works on late Baldwin now in print." --
Journal of American History"Vogel help[s] us to 'catch up' to Baldwin by freeing us from previous misconceptions of the important work he did in his late career." --
African American Review "Clearly and concisely written with a snap in his prose. No one has focused on this era and its unique importance in the way Joseph Vogel has done."--Ed Pavlic, author of Who Can Afford to Improvise?
James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners "In his incisively reasoned and beautifully written volume,
James Baldwin and The 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era, Joseph Vogel picks up on Baldwin's theme of digging through the rubble and, in doing so, unearths new pieces of Baldwin's late years." --
Black Perspectives"A stand-out in recent African American history and literary studies, certainly worth the time of anyone interested in Baldwin or modern America." —Robert Greene II, Society for U.S. Intellectual History Book Review (online)
"While scholars have started to chip away at the critical consensus that James Baldwin lost his way as a writer after the mid-1960s, very few critics have paid attention to the last decade of the writer's work. As Vogel argues in this insightful and elegantly written book, Baldwin remained a vital force in American letters."--Douglas Field, author of
All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin
