SOURCE: A review of Eldridge Cleaver: Post-Prison Writings and Speeches, in America, Vol. 120, No. 13, March 29, 1969, p. 369.

[In the following review, Costello admires Post-Prison Writings and Speeches for its frank approach to American race relations.]

Fr. Harold Salmon, the young, soft-spoken black pastor named last year to serve as vicar of Harlem by New York Archbishop Terence J. Cooke, had some advice in the course of an interview a few weeks ago for anyone who wanted to understand the racial problem. "Listen to Stokely Carmichael," he said, "and listen to Eldridge Cleaver. Try to understand how anyone could get this angry."

Well, here is Mr. Cleaver, and angry is hardly the word. He is here apparently unabridged and certainly unexpurgated, setting down and elaborating upon, in unequivocal terms, some of the things the Black Panthers have on their minds. This [Eldridge Cleaver: Post-Prison Writings and Speeches] is a partial...