Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

This is how a biography, a memoir, a history should be written. Without abstraction, it is covered page after page with truth, anger, respect and intelligence. The book tells us as much about Eddie S. Glaude Jr. as it does about James Baldwin. It tells us as much what it means to be white as it does to be black. But this book is not for everyone. It requires us to be honest about our American history of "freedom", "slavery", "hypocrisy", and "responsibility". This book invites us to look at ourselves with a profound honesty that seldom occurs outside of psychotheraphy. This book is for those who are willing to gaze upon and ponder what it means to be American: our demons and dreams, so long denied and debilitated. This is the most important book that I have read in years. It is not pundantry but wisdom earned and shared: a gift from Eddie S. Glaude Jr. that dares us to begin again and again. "Try again. Fail again. Fail better."quote Eddie quoting Samuel Beckett.