I didn’t know Marlon Brando and James Baldwin were friends. March, 1968, James Baldwin is introducing Martin Luther King at the Disneyland Anaheim hotel where I’ve been a hundred times. It’s sort of like the scene that you write in Begin Again. And there’s a scene where Denisovitch is laying bricks which I’ll never forget. HH: Well, I read that when I was 13 or 14, and it changed my worldview, because I didn’t know anything about the Soviet concentration camps. Have you ever read One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn? HH: Well, I’ll begin with an unusual question, and I’ll explain it. It’s actually blowing me away, Hugh, the response, absolutely. But are a lot of people telling you that?ĮG: You know, surprisingly, a lot of folks from across a variety of political spectrums, it’s been heartwarming. And I’ve got to tell you, Eddie, some books just hit you like a hammer, and this one is one of those for a lot of reasons we’ll talk about. HH: Well, I’m different than I was Friday. He’s the author of the brand-new bestseller Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own. HH: Great pleasure to have Professor Eddie Glaude, Jr. of Princeton joined me this morning to discuss his new book Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own, one of the most compelling books I’ve ever –and that’s 50 years of reading there– encountered.
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