{"product_id":"the-evidence-of-things-not-seen-reissued-edition-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\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780805039399\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\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, David Adams Leeming","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36643893215388,"sku":"9780805039399","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_758ce320-0e6b-4f88-9da8-87a060d1954e.jpg?v=1603857478","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-evidence-of-things-not-seen-reissued-edition-9780805039399","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}