Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual - James Baldwin is widely regarded asone of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. This Everyman's Librarycollection includes his bestselling, galvanizing essay The Fire NextTime-which gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement of the 1960sand still lights the way to understanding race in America today-along withthree additional brilliant works of nonfiction by this seminal chronicler andanalyst of culture. From No Name In the Street's extraordinary history of theturbulent sixties and early seventies to the "passionate, probing, controversial"(The Atlantic) Nobody Knows My Name and the incisive criticism of Americanmovies in The Devil Finds Work, Baldwin's stunning prose over and over provesrelevant to our contemporary struggle for equality, justice, and social change.