Diane Sawyer's Bookshelf

O, The Oprah Magazine | From the September 2000 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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The Fire Next Time
By James Baldwin

It's not a read for the beach, but James Baldwin writes like a red-hot hammer on an anvil. Even if you didn't live through the Civil Rights Movement in the sixties, when Baldwin wrote this book, every word is still a call to arms and a cry of the heart.

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