Harper To Publish Charles M. Blow’s THE DEVIL YOU KNOW: A Black Power Manifesto

Harper announced the publication date of February 2, 2021 for Charles M. Blow’s THE DEVIL YOU KNOW: A Black Power Manifesto. The deal for world rights was negotiated by David Kuhn of Aevitas Creative Management with Harper’s President and Publisher, Jonathan Burnham, and Jennifer Barth, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor, who is editing the book.

The acclaimed New York Times columnist never wanted to write a “race book.” But as violence against Black people—both physical and psychological—seemed only to increase in recent years, culminating in the historical pandemic and protests of the summer of 2020, Blow felt compelled to write a new story for Black Americans. Drawing on history, political observations and Blow’s personal experience as a Black son of the South, THE DEVIL YOU KNOW proposes nothing short of the most audacious power play by Black people in the history of this country, as well as a road map to equality.

Jonathan Burnham said, “As longtime fans of Charles Blow’s work, we are thrilled to be publishing THE DEVIL YOU KNOW early next year. We can’t wait to share this groundbreaking, visionary book with the world.”

Charles Blow said, “When I began work on this book years ago, it sprang out of an epiphany, my coming to see clearly a path forward for Black America that did not require kowtowing before white power structures or playing to white sympathies. At its base, equality is about power: equal access to it, equal treatment by it and equal control over it. The time is at an end for Black people begging and pleading, marching and chanting, for an equitable stake in that power. The time has come to simply assume it, to use the Constitution itself as the vehicle. I have written this book not as a meditation on race, not as a protestation, but as a plan. A manifesto.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Charles M. Blow is an acclaimed journalist and op-ed columnist for the New York Times who appears frequently on CNN. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling memoir Fire Shut Up in My Bones. He lives in Atlanta.

ABOUT HARPERCOLLINS:
HarperCollins Publishers is the second largest consumer book publisher in the world, with operations in 17 countries. With 200 years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world, HarperCollins publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year in 16 languages and has a print and digital catalog of more than 200,000 titles. Writing across dozens of genres, HarperCollins authors include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Newbery and Caldecott Medals and the Man Booker Prize. HarperCollins, headquartered in New York, is a subsidiary of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) and can be visited online at corporate.HC.com.