Target zero
Subtitle: a life in writing
By: Eldridge Cleaver ; edited by Kathleen Cleaver ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; afterword by Cecil Brown.
Contributors: Cleaver, Kathleen.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-; African Americans -- Biography; African American political activists -- Biography; Political activists -- United States -- Biography; African Americans -- Politics and government; African Americans -- Social conditions; United States -- Race relations
Genres: Biography.
Description: Former Black Panther information minister Eldridge Cleaver was a complex man who inspired profound adulation, love, rage, and, among many, fear. Target Zero brings Cleaver's controversial story into focus through his own words. This book charts Cleaver's life through his writings: his quiet childhood, his youth spent in prison, his startling emergence as a Black Panther leader who became a "fugitive from justice" by the end of 1968, his seven-year exile, and his religious and political conversion following his return to the U.S. Target Zero, which brings together previously unpublished essays, short stories, letters, interviews, and poems, is the most significant collection of Eldridge Cleaver's writing since his bestselling book Soul on Ice (1968).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.