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Soul on Ice [Paperback]

Eldridge Cleaver (Author)
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Release Date: Jan 12 1999
The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience.

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, "I'm perfectly aware that I'm in prison, that I'm a Negro, that I've been a rapist, and that I have a Higher Uneducation." What Cleaver shows us, on the pages of this now classic autobiography, is how much he was a man.

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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."—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, Atlantic Monthly

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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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3.0 out of 5 stars About half of this book is brilliant and the other half . . . Jan 30 2008
By Philneia Timmons
Format:Paperback
This is still one of the most important books of its era. It is very enlightening on such topics as racism suffered by Blacks in America, particulary Black males. If you want to know about the injustices that Black people have suffered around the 1960s, then you must read this book. But Cleaver's attempt to justify rape as a "revolutionary" act causes him to lose credibilty and also causes his cause to lose credibilty. This book would have been more powerful if Cleaver would have accepted responsibility for his crime, realizing rape cannot and never will be justifified.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Justification for the Unjustifiable Jun 8 2004
By Stephen Hancock
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I have seldom read anything as offensive as Cleaver's attempt to pass off rape as a "revolutionary" act. By his own admission he is a serial rapist,and if he'd served time for all of them would never even have been out of jail in the sixties in the first place! While the other content of this book isn't totally worthless, I found that Cleaver came off as a typical criminal, filled with reasons why SOMEBODY ELSE was responsible for everything he did wrong. The first step to self respect is to accept responsibility for one's actions, Cleaver has not done that, nor does he give the slightest indication that he ever will. If you want to read an autobiography of a panther read Huey Newton's, because with Newton, instead of self pity, there was substance and intelligence behind the anger.
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5.0 out of 5 stars a challenging piece of work May 20 2004
By The Djeli
Format:Paperback
This autobiography upsetted alot of people, generally people who could not identify with what it was to be a young African American man post-civil rights. Cleaver reveals this to us, exposing even his own faults, the psychological enslavement of African America, and the reality of how it plays out in society. Despite those that believe that this book pertains only to this era are obviously blind to the fact that many of the same issues then exist today. What makes it worse is that many people are unaware of it now, the gimmicks of media and political correctness have only mastered camouflaging it. When I read this book, I cried, not just for my people during that era, but for my own children who will grow up in the same environment but not know it until it is too late.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Throw your fist up!
Some people just can't accept the truth. Eldridge Cleaver tries to show the reality of blacks but the people who criticize it are the whites cant get a grip on reality. Read more
Published on April 26 2004
1.0 out of 5 stars STILL FACING MENTAL SLAVERY
CLEAVER CLEARLY STATES HE PRACTICE RAPING LIGHT SKINNED BLACK WOMEN (BECAUSE HE THOUGHT DARK SKIN WOMEN WERE INFERIOR) UNTIL HE COULD GET HIS HANDS ON WHITE WOMEN. Read more
Published on April 7 2004
2.0 out of 5 stars Between Twist and Revolution: Soul Power in the 1960s
Using humor, love letters, essays, poetic language, and Marxist/Leftist rhetoric Eldridge Cleaver's "Soul on Ice" creatively outlines a perspective from which the 1960s might best... Read more
Published on July 23 2003 by Saer Maty Ba
5.0 out of 5 stars immaculate
This book is a must! Whoever does not understand it, needs to read the book again, his words are poetic and revolutionary. Anyone who doubts this book, go back and read it.
Published on Jun 9 2003
3.0 out of 5 stars Not to be confused with Leave it to Beaver
Even though this was one of the most important and popular books of the 1960s, it is not discussed that much now, some thirty-five years after its initial publication. Read more
Published on Aug 15 2002 by matthewslaughter
5.0 out of 5 stars the real deal from an educated black man
racism is still alive and well in the USA, despite surface gains by some people of color. this book goes into a theory for black/white tensions: the primeval mitosis, when humanity... Read more
Published on Nov 12 2001 by L. Rephann
5.0 out of 5 stars UNDERLINING SECTIONS EVEN THOUGH IT WASN'T A SCHOOL TEXT
I FOUND MYSELF UNDERLINING SECTIONS OF THIS DEEP, AND SELF CONSCIOUS BOOK. TO HAVE SOMEONE'S WAY OF THINKING CHANGE BEFORE YOUR EYES IN A BOOK, GEE! Read more
Published on Jan 15 2001 by Jean Louis
5.0 out of 5 stars soul on ice- 30 years later
You Must read this book! It is an important Historical (1968) Document of life in america. Eldridge Cleaver holds nothing back from the reader & makes no excuses. Read more
Published on Nov 17 2000 by "pinetree59"
3.0 out of 5 stars There are insights in here somewhere. . .
Eldridge Cleaver writes his memoirs here, and much of the book seeks to justify his actions and sentiments. Read more
Published on Nov 9 2000 by "trevisol"
4.0 out of 5 stars Noteworthy
As a college student, I chose this book due to my interest in history. It relates to that and much more. Read more
Published on July 24 2000 by College student
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