false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170873569m/75162.jpg 75162 10 The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience.<br><br>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 <b>Soul on Ice</b>, "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. 1949545 1968 Soul on Ice total:793|5:180|4:308|3:219|2:57|1:29| 793 2932 1052 97 5 3 false false Fri Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 22:45:57 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 28 17:29:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 3 false false Sat Aug 09 19:27:27 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 15:38:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Dec 13 08:05:35 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 08:05:50 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 11:18:41 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 10:04:49 -0700 2009
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 ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 08:53:53 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 22:28:06 -0700 2009 Soul on Ice gets five stars for intensity, that's for sure. Clevaer is sometimes insensitive, ugly, and mean. A few of his essays evoke the kind of interior nausea that accompanies accounts of the despicable. But this collection is a masterpiece of one man's (though not his race's) struggles and emp...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Wed Aug 15 10:23:28 -0700 2007 Thu Jan 03 10:34:00 -0800 2008
There's a fascinating anecdote in the Wikipedia article about Cleaver: It claims that he applied for a technical writer position at Apple Computer in 1980; his resume listed a single publication, this book. Apple's documentation staff had read the book...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 24 10:11:12 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 24 10:18:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 02 17:54:59 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 14:44:14 -0800 2008 2 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Oct 14 10:43:27 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 14 10:48:12 -0700 2007 4 1 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Jun 13 20:46:58 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 13 21:32:43 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 17:24:15 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 17:40:57 -0700 2009
This is a short book, though not your average "quick-read."...more...]]> 3 0 true false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 21:32:06 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 11:13:00 -0700 2008 1
Cleaver is an eloquent and interesting man, and provides a needed perspective as a young, angry, imprisoned black man.

The book was also engaging as an embodiment of the anger felt by so many black folks during the Civil Rights Movement--it is...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 12 08:30:03 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 08 08:34:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 03 11:15:24 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 11:37:59 -0800 2008 Soul On Ice is full of interesting writing on a variety of topics. Unfortunately, I was unable to get past the fact that Cleaver was a rapist who "practiced" on African American women so he could work up to white women. All too often we read the state...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 03 00:23:51 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 00:51:33 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 28 00:47:26 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 13 22:25:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 20:45:45 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 20:45:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 24 09:10:24 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 09:13:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Dec 19 07:32:42 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 07:33:51 -0800 2008 ...there's a fascinating anecdote in the Wikipedia article about Cleaver: It claims that he applied for a technical writer position at Apple Computer in 1980; his resume listed a single publication, this book. Apple's documentation staff had read the book, evidently didn't want to work w...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1969 Thu Jun 11 23:50:05 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 23:53:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=75162