Volume 12, Number 9 · May 8, 1969
The Fire This Time?
By Harold W. Cruse
Eldridge Cleaver: Post-Prison Speeches and Writings
edited by Robert Scheer
Random House, 211 pp., $5.95
Reviewing Eldridge Cleaver's second book, Post-Prison Speeches and Writings, demands a critical license like that of reviewing the aspects of a man's life which consigned him to purgatory. Moreover, the review itself can offer little promise of comfort and less in the way of advice to the man in question, whose likely response would be: 'If I could live life all over again, I'd do the same thing.' There is, then, but one legitimate line of investigation, since we already know why the man lived the way he did. This approach would ask two questions: 'Why must he do it again in that way, if he could?' and 'Is there really no other way?'
Review, 6509 words
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