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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 5, 2005
Pros: One of the Most Wonderful People! Cons: -
Summary: I had the privilege of reading Assata Shakur's autobiography, Assata: An Autobiography, during the summer of my junior year of college when one of my wonderful radical friends gave me this book and Elaine Brown's A Taste of Power: A Woman's Story to ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 15, 2003
Pros: Interesting autobiography on one of the lesser luminaries in the Black Power struggle... Cons: May be too intense for some audiences...
Summary: Assata Shakur's autobiography is one of the more candid retrospectives on the black power movement of the 60's. H. Rap Brown, Malcolm X and Eldridge Cleaver, among others, have left us with more revealing and better-written testimonies on the black ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 24, 2002
Pros: The true story of a revolutionary historical figure. Cons: It's a true story.
Summary: One could easily imagine the life of JoAnne Chesimard being a movie. Full of action, drama, hope and sadness - the life of Chesimard is the stuff films are made of. Chances are though, you don’t even know who she is. Better known to the ... read more
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