NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In his final years, one of America's greatest
writers envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends,
Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal
notes for the project had never been published before acclaimed
filmmaker Raoul Peck mined them to compose his Academy
Award-nominated documentary.
"Thrilling.... A portrait of one man's confrontation with a
country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, 'devastated my
universe.'" --The New York Times
Peck weaves these texts together, brilliantly imagining the book that
Baldwin never wrote with selected published and unpublished passages,
essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive
and pertinent now as they have ever been. Peck's film uses them to
jump through time, juxtaposing Baldwin's private words with his
public statements, in a blazing examination of the tragic history of
race in America.
This edition contains more than 40 black-and-white images from the
film.