Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0822317362, Hardcover)

In this small but eloquent work, Duke University professor of religion and culture C. Eric Lincoln calls for a "no-fault reconciliation" between the races. For 50 years, he recorded his thoughts and observations on the subject of race in a series of notebooks. Those notebooks and most of his personal possessions were destroyed in a fire. From the ashes of that blaze emerges Coming Through Fire, a distillation of a lifetime of thoughtful examination of this country's most perplexing problem, which he calls "the hydra-headed monster which stifles our most beautiful dreams before they are fairly dreamt."