The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America
Nicholas Buccola
Princeton University Press
Buccola's 'The Fire is Upon us" is the first book to tell the full story of the televised 1965 debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley, Jr., a fierce critic and America's most influential conservative intellectual.