James Baldwin and Britain

Daniel Snowman review of Fern Marja Eckman's the Furious Passage of James Baldwin

Source: Tribune

Daniel Snowman, ‘Black man’s campaign’, 22 March 1968, Issue 12, Tribune, Volume 32, Issue, p. 8

Daniel Snowman, Review of the Furious Passage of James Baldwin by Fern Marja Eckman, Chaos or Community by Martin Luther King, and Black Power by Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton.

‘The biography of Baldwin is largely based on taped interview that Mrs. Eckman did with the author himself and the text is liberally sprinkled with the unedited quotations from those tapes. The book is better in its earlier chapters Mrs Eckman (and Baldwin) are concerned with Baldwin’s childhood and adolescence, than when it tries to tackle the glittering, glamorous, gossipy, and painful world of Jimmy Baldwin, international celebrity.’