A person records with a phone an amateur fireworks display in an empty park on June 24, 2020 in the Brooklyn.Stephanie Keith/Getty
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John Williams had just finished his fourth novel and was trying to figure out how to sell it. His 1967 book, The Man Who Cried I Am, focused on a CIA plot to stave off an inevitable Black uprising by exterminating all people of African descent….
