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.-New York Times Book Review All the essays 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, Atlantic Monthly About the Author Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) wrote his magnum opus, Soul on Ice, while serving a prison sentence in the infamous Folsom State Prison before joining the Black Panther Party. The hell is there, and its name is America.as with Malcolm X, Cleavers book is a spiritual autobiography.

He described these crimes as politically inspired.

In the most controversial part of the book, Cleaver acknowledges committing acts of rape, stating that he initially raped black women in the ghetto 'for practice' and then embarked on the serial rape of white women. Review Quotes A collection of essays straight out of Dantes Inferno. His book Soul On Ice is a collection of essays. Originally written in Folsom State Prison in 1965, and published three years later in. What Cleaver shows us, on the pages of this classic autobiography, is how much he was a man. Soul On Ice is a memoir and collection of essays by Eldridge Cleaver. Cleaver writes in Soul on Ice, Im perfectly aware that Im in prison, that Im a Negro, that Ive been a rapist, and that I have a Higher Uneducation. An odyssey of a soul in search of itself, groping toward a personal humanism which will give meaning to life.-The Progressive By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver are a testament to his unique place in American history. With a preface by Ishmael Reed - As with Malcolm X, Cleavers book is a spiritual autobiography. Book Synopsis The classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience.

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