Hustler, March 8, 1969

Baldwin is mentioned in a blurb about Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice:

“Eldridge Cleaver (an architest of the black Panther Movement) has finally hit this town It is an expensive landing for those who want to buy (35s. Jonathan Cape). The black reading public will go for this book and so will a lot of liberals. Cleaver is devastating in his attacks on the society around him and he will come in for a lot of criticism because of the way he writes about Baldwin. He places Richard Wright and Malcolm X where he things they belong – at the top. You can almost see his bared soul in his attitude to homosexuality – the final humiliation for the black man. But the book is by no means a book screaming hate and vengeance – Cleaver’s optimism for a better American and a better world comes slicing through, but the message is loud and clear – ‘we want it now’.”