To Die for the People

Print: NY Times, NY Review of Books, New Yorker, Newsweek, LA Times Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Bay Guardian, ColorLines, Black Scholar, The Nation, Utne Reader, Mother Jones, Atlantic Monthly, Bookforum, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Multicultural Review, The Progressive, Black Issues Book Review, African American Review Online: BlackCommentator.com, Z-Net, AlterNet, Counterpunch Book Clubs: Black Minds Book Club, Progressive Book Club, African American Literature Book Club Academic marketing: Strong course adoption potential for African American Studies, Sociology, History, and American Studies departments. Working with advice from David Hilliard, a Black Liberation scholar and director of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, on academic opportunities. OAH, ASALH (Oct. 2009)

A fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America.Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Newton is now being discovered by those interested in the history of America's social movements. This new release of a classic collection of his writings and speeches traces the development of Newton's personal and political thinking, as well as the radical changes that took place in the formative years of the Black Panther Party. More than just a historic record, Newton's prescience and foresight make these documents strikingly pertinent today. Huey Newton was the founder, leader, and chief theoretician of the Black Panther Party, and one of America's most dynamic and important revolutionary philosophers.