Soul on Ice

The classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. With a preface by Ishmael Reed As with Malcolm X, Cleavers 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 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. 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. What Cleaver shows us, on the pages of this classic autobiography, is how much he was a man.