A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed | National Bestseller

In his final years, Baldwin envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project had never been published beforeacclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined Baldwins oeuvre to compose his stunning documentary filmI Am Not Your Negro.

Peck weaves these texts together,brilliantly imagining the book that Baldwin never wrote withselected published and unpublished passages, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been.Pecks film uses them to jump through time, juxtaposing Baldwins private words with his public statements, in a blazing examination of the tragic history of race in America.

This edition contains more than 40 black-and-white images from the film.

Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary

• Lexile Measure:1000L
• Item Weight:5.6 ounces
• Paperback:118 pages
• ISBN-13:9780525434696
• Product Dimensions:5.41 x 0.45 x 7.93 inches
• Publisher:Vintage; Media Tie In Edition (February 7, 2017)
• Language:English