On February 18, 1965, a televised debate in Cambridge, England became the forum for a historic faceoff between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of that movement and America's most influential conservative intellectual overseas. Nicholas Buccola’s “The Fire Is upon Us James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America” is the first book to tell the full story of this momentous event and to examine how the debate continues to speak to America's racial divide today. Join us for a discussion of what Baldwin and Buckley’s historic faceoff can tell us about America’s present in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.