First edition of this essay on the Atlanta Child Murders, which a contemporary review at the time called "nothing less than an update on the progress—or lack of it—of the American Dream."
Fine in fine jacket.
Price: $100.00
Baldwin first began researching the Atlanta Child Murders of 1979-1981 on assignment from Walter Lowe, the first Black editor at PLAYBOY, where an earlier version of this essay was first published and won the magazine's Best Nonfiction award for 1981. Sensitive to his burden of responsibility to victims, survivors, and the truth, Baldwin rejected the creative license employed by Truman Capote and his many lesser true-criminal successors, explaining: "Tolstoy has every right to throw Anna Karenina under the train. [...] But the life of a living human being, no one writes it. You cannot deal with another human being as though he were a fictional creation." Rather, EVIDENCE is a deep examination of the still-unresolved crimes and investigation in the context of the many failures and spoiled promises of a post-Civil-Rights-era South, the broken relations between the police and the Black community of Atlanta, and the fatal corruption of city administrators and the American justice system.
Read more: Estes, "James Baldwin" (Interview), The New Orleans Review; Cep, "When James Baldwin Wrote About the Atlanta Child Murders," The New Yorker; Lowe, "Moment of Truth in Atlanta: James Baldwin Remembered," Emerge.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1985). 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter black cloth, black paper boards, silver-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($11.95) glossy color typographic dust jacket with photo of Baldwin by J. Phil Samuell on rear panel. Fore-edge machine deckle. xvi, 125, [1] pages. Purple printed review slip, listing publication date as October 28, 1985 and price as $11.95, laid in. Bright, sharp, and sound. b
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