What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America

By: Dyson, Michael Eric

A "tour de force" (Harry Belafonte) now finally in paperback

An electrifying and traumatic encounter in the sixties crystallized the fraught conflict between conscience and politics - between morality and power - in addressing race. In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250297044
• ISBN13: 9781250297044
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.5"