unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver are a. If Cleaver keeps his style under control, his emotional honesty out in front, his intellect on the make, he may end up truly first-rate. Soul on Ice The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately. The book deals with the important things better than 99.4% of the current discussions of race relations. Available at Sojourner Truth Library Stacks (E185.97.C6 A6 1999). All this adds up to some invidious comparisons: memoirs to rival those of Piri Thomas or Claude Brown without their latent self-congratulation Mailer's iconoclasm without his neo-euphuism a SNCC indignation talking up, not down, Baldwin's capacity to transcribe experience into social terms (Cleaver criticizes him, but he seems a non-activist spokesman of this decad as as Baldwin was of the last). His letters from prison to his lawyer, Beverly Axelrod, will embarrass even sympathetic readers, however they deal at violently introspective length with black men's craving for white women. His mistakes are fascinating, too, as when he overrates the alienation of young whites. He discusses pertinent phenomena from New Left and New Right (both ''the spawn of the Negro revolution'') to Cassius Clay (in the context of Negro atheletes' prior roles). Nationally syndicated cartoonist Jerry Marcus, who lived in Ridgefield, drew this editorial cartoon for the Ridgefield Press during the book-burning crisis. Jack Sanders/Ridgefield Press Show More Show Less 2 of 3. His general credo: ''The racial problem can no longer be solved in isolation,'' for even if ''Whitey'' wanted to eradicate all evil overnight, the U.S. Ridgefield Board of Education member Leo Carroll in 1973 reading 'Soul on Ice' by Eldridge Cleaver. The essays offer a constellation of discrete insights into black militancy and white society. Cleaver writes well, with remarkable assurance and without most of the mannerisms of a young self-taught writer-much less a young Negro writer, which he is-an ex-Muslim who served time for marijuana and rape, putting out most of Soul on Ice in jail. The classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience.

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