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Original Title:	Soul On Ice
ISBN:	038533379X (ISBN13: 9780385333795)
Edition Language:	English URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldridge_Cleaver
Setting:	United States of America

Soul on Ice Paperback | Pages: 242 pages

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Title	:	Soul on Ice
Author	:	Eldridge Cleaver
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 242 pages
Published	:	January 12th 1999 by Delta (first published 1968)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography. History. Autobiography. Memoir. Cultural. African American. Politics

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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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Soul on Ice had me gripped to the edge of my seat. I was in awe of his writing, initially near to torn apart reading this man scraping the bottom of his soul saying heres who I am, what I think, how I think, and more importantly, how I came to think. The next thing I know, Im sorely humored (and amazed) by the sophisticated but surly way he phrases, and then positions his arguments. Generally, this is not the best way to win arguments. But it does grab attention, and I must contend, make for

This is absolutely one of the the most overrated books of all time. Soul on Ice is a collection of outdated essays, along with a few love letters to his attorney written while Cleaver was serving time for being a serial rapist. Cleaver shows a poor understanding of the political workings of the elites, the reasons why many middle and working class whites are "racists", and virtually every other thing he opens his mouth on with one major exception. His observations about the disturbing mental and

This book was really good. I loved it. At first, I didnt know what to expect as Im not accustomed to reading books where the book is a collection of essays or such. The last book I read like that was by James Baldwin. It was very refreshing, yet again initially I didnt know what to expect. This book was raw, but not too raw at the same time. A happy medium was provided in which Cleaver detailed many troubles and thoughts that plagued him and society alike during the civil rights era. I guess

I should feel guiltier about not liking this book, I suppose, but I don't think that would be fair.A large portion of the book's latter subject matter consists of an idea that a partition between the world of the white man and the world of the black man can be adequately represented, in short, by saying that the white man assigned the black man the status of being representative of the Body (capitalization as it appears in the book) while the white man appoints himself as a personification of

I had to be very careful with this review because I had to remember that I was reviewing the book and not assessing Eldridge Cleaver as a person. But in all fairness, I have to say the book was great. However, Eldridge Cleaver was a highly confused, highly disturbed, extremely awkward predator who later became a drug addicted contradiction. But I digress. The book. That's what I'm reviewing. I have a hard time considering this an autobiography. Although it contains a wealth of exposure to many

I'm done. When I initially read this book forty some years ago as a chick still in high school I was naievly dazzled. Rereading it now I hoped to gain a perspective of the time it was written. Now it reads like the diatribe of an obsessed, bitter hater. I can certainly understand the validity of many of the points made in this book, but the seething vitriolic undercurrents take the whole thing down. Of course, I now have read information regarding the balance of the Eldridge Cleaver's life and

Step Two in my attempts to not be a racial invalid. This book, which if I remember correctly was mostly written in prison from a rape conviction, does not do much to promote the "we're really all the same" attitude; in my naivety, I was probably surprised to hear this coming from a black guy. It was undoubtedly also the first time I heard negative opinions of The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. from someone who wasn't a certified white supremacist. Mr. Cleaver makes no attempt to smooth