Soul on Ice (Ramparts books) - Softcover

Eldridge Cleaver

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9780440081630: Soul on Ice (Ramparts books)

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ISBN 10: 0440081637 ISBN 13: 9780440081630

Publisher: Dell, 1968

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Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther Minister of Information and former Candidate for the Presidency of the United States on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket, here writes about the forces that shaped his life and that are currently molding our national destiny, This book, written while the author was in California's Folsom State Prison, has the terrifying lucidity of a calm before the storm. Soul on Ice will make you either cheer or wince, but it will compel your attention.

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The searingly honest memoirs of the man who shocked, outraged and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement remain today as a testament to the man's intelligence, insightfulness, and place in American history.

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"A collection of essays straight out of Dante's Inferno. The hell is there, and its name is America...as with Malcolm X, Cleaver's book is a spiritual autobiography. An odyssey of a soul in search of itself, groping toward a personal humanism which will give meaning to life...the book is important...the book is extraordinary."
--Shane Stevens, The Progressive

"A remarkable book...beautifully written...Eldridge Cleaver makes you twist and flinch...he throws light on the dark areas that we wish he would leave alone."
-- The Nation

"Brilliant and revealing."
-- The New York Times Book Review

"All the essays [in Soul on Ice] deal with racial hurt, racial struggle, and racial pride...Eldridge Cleaver is a promising and powerful writer, an intelligent and turbulent and passionate and eloquent man."
--Robert Coles, The Atlantic Monthly

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