Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)
Published:
Books on Tape 2020
Status:
Available from OverDrive
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”—Time
James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment?
One of the Best Books of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune • One of Esquire’s Best Biographies of All Time • Winner of the Stowe Prize • Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice
“Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.”—James Baldwin
Begin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America’s ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. Just as in Baldwin’s “after times,” argues Eddie S. Glaude Jr., when white Americans met the civil rights movement’s call for truth and justice with blind rage and the murders of movement leaders, so in our moment were the Obama presidency and the birth of Black Lives Matter answered with the ascendance of Trump and the violent resurgence of white nationalism.
In these brilliant and stirring pages, Glaude finds hope and guidance in Baldwin as he mixes biography—drawn partially from newly uncovered Baldwin interviews—with history, memoir, and poignant analysis of our current moment to reveal the painful cycle of Black resistance and white retrenchment. As Glaude bears witness to the difficult truth of racism’s continued grip on the national soul, Begin Again is a searing exploration of the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America.
James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment?
One of the Best Books of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune • One of Esquire’s Best Biographies of All Time • Winner of the Stowe Prize • Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice
“Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.”—James Baldwin
Begin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America’s ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. Just as in Baldwin’s “after times,” argues Eddie S. Glaude Jr., when white Americans met the civil rights movement’s call for truth and justice with blind rage and the murders of movement leaders, so in our moment were the Obama presidency and the birth of Black Lives Matter answered with the ascendance of Trump and the violent resurgence of white nationalism.
In these brilliant and stirring pages, Glaude finds hope and guidance in Baldwin as he mixes biography—drawn partially from newly uncovered Baldwin interviews—with history, memoir, and poignant analysis of our current moment to reveal the painful cycle of Black resistance and white retrenchment. As Glaude bears witness to the difficult truth of racism’s continued grip on the national soul, Begin Again is a searing exploration of the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America.
Formats
OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
Works on MP3 Players, PCs, and Macs. Some mobile devices may require an application to be installed.
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
More Copies In LINK+
Loading LINK+ Copies...
More Details
Format:
OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen
Edition:
Unabridged
Street Date:
06/30/2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780593167151
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (2020). Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own. Unabridged Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 2020. Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own. Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Eddie S. Glaude Jr, Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own. Books on Tape, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2020.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Copy Details
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 10 | 6 |
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
612ff4b9-cc0b-35f5-f456-fb3bb6eff760
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Aug 07, 2020 14:27:05
Date Updated:
Sep 22, 2021 16:14:23
Last Metadata Check:
Apr 22, 2024 09:04:52
Last Metadata Change:
Apr 09, 2024 17:19:23
Last Availability Check:
Apr 22, 2024 09:04:53
Last Availability Change:
Apr 22, 2024 09:04:53
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Apr 24, 2024 02:13:21
OverDrive Product Record
- sortTitle
- Begin Again James Baldwins America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
- crossRefId
- 4715637
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{9F494645-C113-4E2E-9D32-21FFB7F71C99}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/{9F494645-C113-4E2E-9D32-21FFB7F71C99}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1191-1/9F4/946/45/{9F494645-C113-4E2E-9D32-21FFB7F71C99}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1191-1/9F4/946/45/{9F494645-C113-4E2E-9D32-21FFB7F71C99}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: 8
- value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780593167144
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780593167151
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- id: audiobook-mp3
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: 8
- value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780593167144
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780593167151
- name: OverDrive Listen
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- subtitle
- James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- id
- 9f494645-c113-4e2e-9d32-21ffb7f71c99
- title
- Begin Again
- starRating
- 4
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=569&titleID=4715637
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: NorthNet Library System (CA)
- id: 2323
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- duration: 07:49:14
- fileName: BeginAgain_9780593167144_4715637
- partCount: 9
- fileSize: 222879188
- identifiers:
- audience: retailer
- type: 8
- value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780593167144
- audience: library
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780593167151
- rights:
- type: PlayOnPC
- value: 1
- type: PlayOnPCCount
- value: -1
- type: BurnToCD
- value: 1
- type: BurnToCDCount
- value: -1
- type: PlayOnPM
- value: 1
- type: TransferToSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferToNonSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferCount
- value: -1
- type: CollaborativePlay
- value: 0
- type: PublicPerformance
- value: 0
- type: TranscodeToAAC
- value: 1
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-mp3
- onSaleDate: 6/30/2020
- samples:
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-mp3
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/4715637-BeginAgain.mp3
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9f494645-c113-4e2e-9d32-21ffb7f71c99&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- duration: 07:44:15
- fileName: OverDrive_76377
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 222847474
- identifiers:
- audience: retailer
- type: 8
- value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780593167144
- audience: library
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780593167151
- name: OverDrive Listen
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 6/30/2020
- samples:
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-mp3
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/4715637-BeginAgain.mp3
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9f494645-c113-4e2e-9d32-21ffb7f71c99&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Glaude Jr., Eddie S.
- bioText: Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University and author of Democracy in Black.
- name: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Glaude Jr., Eddie S.
- bioText: Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University and author of Democracy in Black.
- name: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- imprint
- Random House Audio
- publishDate
- 2020-06-30T00:00:00-04:00
- edition
- Unabridged
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- Begin Again
- fullDescription
- NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”—Time
James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment?
One of the Best Books of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune • One of Esquire’s Best Biographies of All Time • Winner of the Stowe Prize • Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice
“Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.”—James Baldwin
Begin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America’s ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. Just as in Baldwin’s “after times,” argues Eddie S. Glaude Jr., when white Americans met the civil rights movement’s call for truth and justice with blind rage and the murders of movement leaders, so in our moment were the Obama presidency and the birth of Black Lives Matter answered with the ascendance of Trump and the violent resurgence of white nationalism.
In these brilliant and stirring pages, Glaude finds hope and guidance in Baldwin as he mixes biography—drawn partially from newly uncovered Baldwin interviews—with history, memoir, and poignant analysis of our current moment to reveal the painful cycle of Black resistance and white retrenchment. As Glaude bears witness to the difficult truth of racism’s continued grip on the national soul, Begin Again is a searing exploration of the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America. - popularity
- 968
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/9f494645-c113-4e2e-9d32-21ffb7f71c99/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- 9f494645-c113-4e2e-9d32-21ffb7f71c99
- starRating
- 4
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{9F494645-C113-4E2E-9D32-21FFB7F71C99}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/{9F494645-C113-4E2E-9D32-21FFB7F71C99}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1191-1/9F4/946/45/{9F494645-C113-4E2E-9D32-21FFB7F71C99}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1191-1/9F4/946/45/{9F494645-C113-4E2E-9D32-21FFB7F71C99}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Biography & Autobiography
- value: History
- value: Sociology
- value: Nonfiction
- publishDateText
- 06/30/2020
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- shortDescription
- NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”—Time
James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment?
One of the Best Books of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune • One of Esquire’s Best Biographies of All Time • Winner of the Stowe Prize • Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice
“Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.”—James Baldwin
Begin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America’s ongoing failure... - sortTitle
- Begin Again James Baldwins America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
- crossRefId
- 4715637
- subtitle
- James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
- publisher
- Books on Tape
- bisacCodes
- code: BIO007000
- description: Biography & Autobiography / Literary
- code: HIS036070
- description: History / United States / 21st Century
- code: SOC031000
- description: Social Science / Discrimination
