| The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America Contributor(s): Pearson, Hugh (Author) |
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ISBN: 0201483416 ISBN-13: 9780201483413 Publisher: Da Capo Press OUR PRICE: $23.74 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1995 Annotation: A controversial, engrossing revisionist assessment of Huey Newton, the civil rights movement, and the Black Panther Party, The Shadow of the Panther "will awaken profound misgivings--about gun-barrel rhetoric, about armed rebellion, about the ambiguities of justice" (The New Yorker). Photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2012450516 |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 5.88" W x 9.14" (1.48 lbs) 444 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Masculine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first complete and balanced history of the Black Panther Party--powerful and provocative Until The Shadow of the Panther there have been no serious book-length attempts to examine the Panthers' history and to evaluate their significance. . . . A Notable Book of the Year.--New York Times Book Review (front page) A keenly observed, often brilliant, Panther-busting book. . . . Pearson nevertheless portrays the Panthers' rise as an understandable reaction against . . . white chauvinism.--Los Angeles Times Book Review This book will awaken profound misgivings--about gun-barrel rhetoric, about armed rebellion, about the ambiguities of justice.--The New Yorker A bracing experience . . . Pearson has been able to present enough hard evidence to draw a chilling portrait of Murder Incorporated in revolutionary dress.--New York Newsday Pearson . . . set out to write a very different book about his boyhood hero [Huey Newton] but didn't blink at the truth . . . honest and compelling judgment.--Detroit News |