Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]) and index.
Contents:
Foreward: Henry Louis Gates -- Editor's introduction: Kathleen Cleaver -- Part one: Early years: "Childhood lessons," excerpt from Soul on Fire -- Autobiography of Eldridge Cleaver, chapters one and two -- Black moochie, Parts I and II -- "On becoming," excerpt from Soul on Ice -- 'A day in Folsom prison," excerpt from Soul and Ice -- Promises, Chapter two -- Part two: Revolution: Uptight in Babylon -- "My father and Stokely Carmichael" -- "The Courage to Kill: Meeting the Panthers" -- "Bunchy" -- "Affidavit no. 1: I am 33 years old" -- Playboy interview -- "On the ideology of the Black Panther Party, Part I" -- "Farewell address" -- Part three: Exile: Autobiography of Eldridge Cleaver, Chapter Four -- "Message to Sister Ericka Huggins of the Black Panther Party" -- "Three notes from exile" -- Autobiography of Eldridge Cleaver, chapter five -- "Towards a people's army" -- "Ganster cigarettes" -- "Culture and revolution: Their synthesis in Africa" -- "Eldridge Cleaver on ice" -- "Exile and death" -- Autobiography of Eldridge Cleaver, chapter seven -- "Why I left America, and why I am returning" -- Part four: Transition: Autobiography of Eldridge Cleaver, chapter nine -- "One excluded from the conference" -- Letter to Bobby Seale -- "Toxic waste and acid rain" -- "Bushwhacking of America" -- Letter to Timothy Leary -- "Reflections on the million man march" -- "Love letter writing butterfly" -- Black history month address to grant African American Episcopal Church, Los Angeles -- Afterword: Eldridge Cleaver, my running buddy: Cecil Brown -- Notes -- Index.
Summary:
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his religious and political conversion following his return to the U.S. Target Zero, which brings together previously unpublished essays, short stories, letters, interviews, and poems, is the most significant collection of Eldridge Cleaver's writing since his bestselling book Soul on Ice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).
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