ISBN Black against Empire : The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party book English 562 pages

An account that should be called, above everything else, 'definitive.''--Bookforum'Vivid renderings of scene ... make comprehensible both the movement and the times.'--Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW'A comprehensive history.'--New Yorker'Unique...in the scope and depth of its scholarship.'--Los Angeles Times Book Review'Black against Empire is a masterful work...Easily the most impressive, sweeping, and substantive scholarly history of the Black Panther Party.'--Journal of American History'The book will become a classic.'--American Historical Review 'Nothing short of impressive.' -- Social Forces'The first comprehensive history of the party.'--London Review of Books'An account that should be called, above everything else,'definitive.' . . . The book's honest attempt to understand the intricacies of the movement is underscored by its commitment to nonpartisanship: While Bloom and Martin take great care not to vilify the Panthers as armed thugs, neither do they romanticize them simply as a misunderstood civil rights group. The result is a downright scientific analysis of a subject that leaves most readers understandably unable to stay neutral.'--Bookforum'Immediately assumes a central and critical spot within the Panther canon. More than a decade in the making, this is no romantic valentine to a bygone day... it takes the Black Panther Party seriously as a political entity taking dead aim on American laws and values. . . . What Bloom and Martin have given us is as authoritative, respectful and complete a record of the Black Panther Party's workings as we are likely to get.'--Pop Matters'A comprehensive and compelling history of the Black Panther Party. As close to complete as one text can possibly be, it is the book I would recommend to anyone wanting to read just one book about the Black Panthers.'--Counterpunch