James Baldwin established himself as the indispensable voice of the Civil
Rights era, a figure whose prophetic exploration of the racial and sexual
fissures in American society raised the consciousness of American readers.
This new Library of America volume see's three of Baldwin's later novels
collected for the first time; Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
(1968), If Beale Street Could Talk (1974) and Just Above My Head (1979).