Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. author and James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of Democracy in Black. In Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (Crown) professor Glaude suggests that in the story of Baldwin’s crucible, we can find hope and guidance in this Trumpian era of shattered promises and white retrenchment. In Begin Again, Glaude mixes biography—drawn partially from newly uncovered interviews—with history, memoir, and trenchant analysis of our current moment and, following Baldwin, bears witness to the difficult truth of race in America today. Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci, praises begin Again as ” a biography, a meditation, a literary analysis, and a moral essay on America. Like Baldwin’s own essays and books, it is at times both loving and angry, challenging and uplifting, and always beautiful. Both Baldwin and this book speak directly to today.”