The American Enterprise, January 1st, 1999
Go Tell It on the Mountain By James Baldwin, 1952
On last summer's Modern Library list of the 100 greatest English-language novels of the twentieth century, the first two by black authors were Invisible Man (1947) by Ralph Ellison and Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright.
The plots of the two books are similar, at least in broad outline. In each, a young black male flees the South for a big city up north, where he becomes involved with Communists and, ultimately, winds up outside of society. Both take place principally in urban settings and are written exclusively from the perspective of th...
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