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  • The Price of the Ticket

  • Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985
  • By: James Baldwin
  • Narrated by: JD Jackson
  • Length: 34 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (36 ratings)

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The Price of the Ticket

By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: JD Jackson
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Publisher's summary

An essential compendium of James Baldwin’s most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us “to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country.”

Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the four decades in which he composed them. Longtime Baldwin fans and especially those just discovering his genius will appreciate this essential collection of his great nonfiction writing. Along with 46 additional pieces, it includes the full text of dozens of famous essays from such books as:

  • Notes of a Native Son
  • Nobody Knows My Name
  • The Fire Next Time
  • No Name in the Street
  • The Devil Finds Work

This collection provides the perfect entrée into Baldwin’s prescient commentary on race, sexuality, and identity in an unjust American society.

©1961, 2021 Estate of James Baldwin (P)2021 Beacon Press
  • Unabridged Audiobook
  • Categories: History
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“With burning passion and jabbing, epigrammatic acuity, Baldwin fearlessly articulates issues of race, democracy, and American identity.”—Toni Morrison

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Excellent. I felt like I was conversing with a close friend sharing his inner most personal thoughts and feelings. That I know profoundly now. Thanks

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An honest portrait of the US by an American hero

This is such a fantastic piece of literature I will listen to many times again!

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JB is sublime!

I can't get enough of his works. It cannot be described by a scrub such as myself. it is some of the most penetrating prose ever put down on paper. He's a gift!

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insightful

JD Jackson had one thinking it was James Baldwin reading his own work, excellent . . .

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