Observer, Nov 24, 1985. p.28.

'Black man's burden', John Gross

Very detailed review of The Price of a Ticket.

‘A few pages into this book you will come across the assertion that: “The mobs in the streets of Hitler’s Germany were in those streets not only by the will of the German state, but by the will of the western world.” Can anything useful be learned from someone who goes in for this kind of tub-thumping? If you didn’t know who JB was, you might well decide that there is no point in reading on. NP: You would be quite wrong…in a collection spanning 40 years. There was a time when Baldwin chose his words more carefully’.