Soul on Ice by Cleaver, Eldridge

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, 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 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, "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 classic autobiography, is how much he was a man.

Author: Eldridge Cleaver
Publisher: Delta
Published: 01/12/1999
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.30w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780385333795

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/31/1999 pg. 24

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.