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“They Will Try to Kill You”: James Baldwin’s Fraught Hollywood Journey

Summary by Vanity Fair
In 1968 Palm Springs, as the author yearned for the would-be leading man of his Malcolm X screenplay, an era-defining act of violence fractured his world. An exclusive first excerpt from ‘Baldwin: A Love Story’ takes us inside his nearly fatal tangle with California.

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“They Will Try to Kill You”: James Baldwin’s Fraught Hollywood Journey

In 1968 Palm Springs, as the author yearned for the would-be leading man of his Malcolm X screenplay, an era-defining act of violence fractured his world. An exclusive first excerpt from ‘Baldwin: A Love Story’ takes us inside his nearly fatal tangle with California.

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