[Soul on Fire] projects back to the sixties, when men and women, educators and policy-makers, blacks and whites were caught in a moral bind, demonstrating for human dignity and equal rights. And who better to articulate that era than a notorious black militant revolutionary?

By and by, the book contains all the "whats" the reader may want to know about Eldridge Cleaver. It is a collection of the events of his life that shaped him into the man he was to become…. There is retrospection on the Panther cause, its principles, terminology, possibilities and programs, and the public misconceptions of the Panther organization. There is reflection on the doctrine of Marxism, which Cleaver came to disavow because of its short-sighted materialism, and its lack of the historical tradition of respect for the individual and his rights, there are descriptions of his exile in Algiers and Paris, and his...