{"product_id":"the-evidence-of-things-not-james-baldwin-9780805039399","title":"The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reissued Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of America's most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for the murder of twenty-eight black children in Atlanta to offer this searing indictment of the nation's racial stagnation. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis edition of James Baldwin's classic work offers a new foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell), and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first published in 1985. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his searing and moving essay, James Baldwin explores the Atlanta child murders that took place over a period of twenty-two months in 1979 and 1980. Examining this incident with a reporter's skill and an essayist's insight, he notes the significance of Atlanta as the site of these brutal killings--a city that claimed to be too busy to hate--and the permeation of race throughout the case: the black administration in Atlanta; the murdered black children; and Wayne Williams, the black man tried for the crimes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRummaging through the ruins of American race relations, Baldwin addresses all the hard-to-face issues that have brought us a moment in history where it is terrifying to to be a black child in white America, and where, too often, public officials fail to ask real questions about justice for all. Baldwin takes a time-specific event and makes it timeless: \u003ci\u003eThe Evidence of Things Not Seen \u003c\/i\u003eoffers an incisive look at race in America through a lens at once disturbing and profoundly revealing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James a. Baldwin, David Adams Leeming\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0805039392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780805039399\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d","brand":"James a. Baldwin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051279642879,"sku":"9780805039399","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6b38c6c0-8166-4566-bf51-cbb822947b2b.jpg?v=1685012148","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-evidence-of-things-not-james-baldwin-9780805039399","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}