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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. --- from book's back cover
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Soul on Ice
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Dell Publishing Co., Inc, 1968
ISBN 10: 0440181631
ISBN 13: 9780440181637
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, 5th Printing. Not price-clipped ($1.95 price intact). Published by Delta, 1968. Octavo. Pictorial wraps. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Covers have light shelf wear with light spotting to page ends. Book placed in custom acetate protector. 210 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell! Seller Inventory # 134200
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McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1968
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Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Seventh printing [stated]. xv. [1], 210, [6] pages. Footnotes. DJ is price clipped and in a plastic sleeve, and has edge wear, tears, chips, and soiling. Name in ink inside front cover. Contents include Introduction by Maxwell Geismar, Letters from Prison, Blood of the Beast, Prelude to Love--Three Letters, and White Women, Black Man. Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 - May 1, 1998) was an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party. In 1968, Cleaver wrote Soul on Ice, a collection of essays that, at the time of its publication, was praised by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant and revealing". Cleaver stated in Soul on Ice: "If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America." Cleaver went on to become a prominent member of the Black Panthers, while a fugitive from the United States in Cuba and Algeria. He became a fugitive after leading an ambush on Oakland police officers, during which two officers were wounded. Cleaver was wounded and Bobby Hutton was killed. Cleaver's influence on the direction of the Party was rivaled only by founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Cleaver and Newton eventually fell out, which weakened the party. After spending seven years in exile in Cuba, Algeria, and France, Cleaver returned to the US in 1975, and he became involved in various religious groups before finally joining the Mormon Church, as well as becoming a conservative Republican. Soul on Ice is a memoir and collection of essays by Eldridge Cleaver. Originally written in Folsom State Prison in 1965, and published three years later in 1968, it is Cleaver's best known writing and remains a seminal work in African-American literature. The treatises were first printed in the nationally-circulated monthly Ramparts and became widely read for their illustration and commentary on Black America. Throughout his narrative, Cleaver describes not only his transformation from a marijuana dealer and serial rapist into a convinced Malcolm X adherent and Marxist revolutionary, but also his analogous relationship to the politics of America. Eldridge Cleaver was born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, in 1935, amidst the severe and unrepentant racism of the South. In 1946, his family moved to Watts, California, where, although the racial climate was not as acute, the young Cleaver began delving into petty crime. After a series of arrests throughout his adolescence, in 1954, he was sent to Soledad State Prison for possession of marijuana. Though he was released within two years, later in 1957, he was convicted of sexual assault with intent to murder and was subsequently sent to San Quentin and then onto Folsom. While imprisoned at Soledad, Cleaver obtained his high school diploma and read the works of Thomas Paine, Richard Wright, Lenin, Machiavelli, Karl Marx, Voltaire, Malcolm X, and W. E. B. Du Bois. When he arrived at Folsom, he began to regularly write freely upon the subject of his "social" and physical imprisonment and the events of the era; eight years later his lawyer, Beverly Axelrod, took the compositions to Ramparts and they were immediately published. After his release in December 1966, Cleaver was reporting for the magazine in San Francisco, and in 1968 Soul on Ice was released. The central premise surrounding the book as a whole is the trouble of "identification as a black soul which has been 'colonized'. by an oppressive white society that projects its brief, narrow vision of life as eternal truth." Cleaver uses the informal essays to navigate through the history and present state of America, covering topics such as the murders of Malcolm X and Emmett Till; the race riots and Vietnam War; U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Flag; Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King Jr. and other "black celebrities;" Richard Wright's Native Son; Islam and Christianity; day-to-day prison life; and the relationship betw. Seller Inventory # 84405