Gone with the Wind: how a 1936 novel explains modern America
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The Wrath to Come, by Am James Baldwin
The wrath to come, as a phrase, originates in the bible. It comes from am james baldwin, who said it is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction. So its bn animage of racial reckoning and this idea of thoughtless white americans who just don't get it. And so i wanted to write this booknan effort to try to educate myself better,. Hopefully ento share that learning with others about our own thoulhtlessness, our thoughtlessness about history.
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