{"product_id":"the-evidence-of-things-not-seen-reissued-edition-anniversary","title":"The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reissued Edition (Anniversary)","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\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.","brand":"Holt Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51936983482599,"sku":"9780805039399","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_88f79dcd-ce72-4f36-939c-ace1d7983a97.jpg?v=1774995607","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/the-evidence-of-things-not-seen-reissued-edition-anniversary","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}