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  <title><![CDATA[Nobody Knows My Name]]></title>
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  <default-description>Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society, and offers personal accounts of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer and other writers.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1963</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[James Baldwin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 03 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 18 13:53:10 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 22 11:51:50 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Baldwin should be read by anyone and everyone. Any commentary I could make would do poor service to his writing and his ideas, but the more and more I read this book the more I appreciate his voice, reasoned, calm, pleading of an understanding to the issue of race which even the most &quot;liberated...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3234205">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Fri Feb 22 21:06:59 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 22 21:35:36 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[amazingly concise &amp; insightful, about race, about writing &amp; art, about Wright &amp; Faulkner &amp; Mailer, about what it means to be an american. he lets nobody off the hook, himself included. the only thing i was really puzzled by was an essay on Andre Gide where it seems like Baldwin is bashing Gide from ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16146210">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26186687">
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    <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 02 23:18:44 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 02 23:18:44 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Deeply eloquent.  I love his long phrases and elegantly arranged sentences.  I don't know if I'm weird but each thought, description, what-have-you goes down like buttah.  <br/><br/>I can definitely recommend this to everybody.  His views are reasoned (as someone remarked here) and they have...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26186687">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17523676">
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    <name><![CDATA[Heather]]></name>
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    <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 11 12:10:32 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 11 12:14:11 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Changed my life.  After I finished reading this book, I remember it was a summer and I was working as an assistant manager at a deli on a beach, and I had to get up super early to open up the place.  And I had the craziest, wildest dreams.  I woke up in the middle of the night with a general disconc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17523676">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8366291">
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    <name><![CDATA[Willow]]></name>
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    <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Oct 28 18:39:10 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 02 20:17:43 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[James Baldwin writes long Ciceroo-esque sentences about the injustices that African-Americans faced during and prior to the integration of African-American children into white schools.  He ponders questions such as &quot;what it means to be an American&quot; and &quot;what is a majority&quot; but do...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8366291">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70350695">
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    <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 07 08:32:22 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 07 08:32:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[the first book by Baldwin that i ever gave a perfect rating.]]></body>
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    <review id="31433552">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 28 10:15:11 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 16 10:05:21 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Baldwin is at his best in this volume when writing about his first travels through the Southern U.S.  It made me wonder what writer today could do a similar job of traveling and telling what was found.<br/><br/>As another reviewer pointed out, his piece on Gide's homosexuality was very problematic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31433552">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7669581">
  <user id="428213">
    <name><![CDATA[Melanie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Sacramento, CA]]></location>        
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    <rating>0</rating>
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  <date_added>Sat Oct 13 11:20:09 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 30 20:43:20 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I normally don't read multiple books at one time, but somehow that's what I'm doing now-a-days.  I wish we got to pick from different versions of book jackets so you could see what my book looks like.  Anyways, this book is promising to be one that make me take measure without even being a self-help...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7669581">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56965284">
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    <name><![CDATA[Denise]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Coeur D Alene, ID]]></location>        
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    <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 22 09:46:14 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 19 14:58:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe this should only be 3 stars since I can't remember enough of the content to summarize,  but I love James Baldwin's writing.  There is something clear and beautiful about his prose and I find him an interesting thinker.]]></body>
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    <review id="13944839">
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    <name><![CDATA[Katie]]></name>
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    <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Tue Jan 29 10:18:37 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 29 10:23:01 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[writes about the ways in which American identity has been formed, from the beginning now, on the duality of white freedom in relation to black enslavement and submission. Great essays to think about what it means to be American, what we claim when we say we are such.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13944839?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="14685121">
  <user id="870860">
    <name><![CDATA[Saaret]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Feb 05 19:56:19 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Feb 05 19:57:15 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's taking me awhile to read this very short book. Great quotes, but I have to admit it's not that captivating. It touches on very significant issues on black identity and crisis, though.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14685121?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="29882707">
  <user id="1348225">
    <name><![CDATA[Dalia]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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    <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 06 13:10:11 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 11 15:46:15 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 06 13:10:11 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Letter from Harlem: Uptown&quot; ('obviously' as someone said to me after) and &quot;In Search of a Majority&quot; changed my life.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29882707?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="27678442">
  <user id="1336573">
    <name><![CDATA[Charles]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Abita Springs, LA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 18 20:40:34 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 30 22:39:11 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[James Baldwin is one of our greatest American writers.  This is a collection of his nonfiction essays.]]></body>
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    <review id="36240981">
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    <name><![CDATA[Julie]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Oct 26 11:55:07 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 26 11:55:36 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Obviously, I'm a fan.  Everyone should read James Baldwin.  Very important.]]></body>
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    <review id="32607983">
  <user id="109808">
    <name><![CDATA[Andrew]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 11 09:30:15 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 11 09:30:49 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[the best there is.]]></body>
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    <review id="76654947">
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  <date_added>Tue Nov 03 20:02:26 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 03 20:02:26 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 02 06:16:42 -0800 2009</date_added>
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 01 12:14:30 -0800 2009</date_added>
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