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Summary: Excellent.
Review: Its when reading a book like this that you wonder about the other women who history has forgotten, but who played a pivitol role in getting to where we are today. Although I stumbled on this book by accident, it was certainly a profound experience in reading it. Those who claim some sort of moral superiority over Brown, do so with the risk of looking ignorant. Brown never claimed to be an unflawed leader - she is human, with all her fallacies, and that makes both her and the story of the Panthers a raw and powerful one, that ultimately rings true. Its important to understand the good and bad of the struggle that was (and is) the struggle for equal rights. Brown's touching autobiography gives as a very human and insightful look at an important woman during an important time.
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Summary: Making It In a Mans World.
Review: Next to Angela Davis Elaine Brownshowed that she could also survivein a racist sexist society. Shehad to overcome the male ego superiormentality to get where she wanted togo. The story she tells is both sadand uplifting. Women of every persua-sion would do well to read this bookby a woman that made it in a mansworld.
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Summary: A well written and engaging memoir
Review: TASTE OF POWER is a great read for anyone interested in either the role Black women have played in political organizations and social movements or the early years and struggles of the Black Panther Party (BPP).Despite the author's obvious biases, the memoir gives a valuable and much-needed humanizing perpective on the foundations of Black female involvement in the BBP. Brown's insights demonstrate to the reader the rampant sexism and lack of accountability that would eventually lead to the downfall of the BPP. Using this powerful medium, Brown also devotes pages of text to slandering her enemies. Everyone from Bobby Seale and Ike Turner to Lori B. Andrews and David Horowitz are victimized by her poision pen as she tries to get the last word on aged disagreements. Brown is refreshingly honest about her own failed parenting, drug abuse and promiscuity but still comes across as suspiciously noble in the face of all the temptations and double-dealing that plagued the party in it's later years. That being said, TASTE OF POWER is a well-written and engaging memoir that will reveal to the reader the need for modern Black women to form their own grassroots organizations for social/political change in the US.
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Summary: One Womans Stength
Review: This book showed me that history has clearly left Elaine Brown out of it's books. Elaine Brown the remarkable woman that she is clearly turned the party around from it's gun toting days while all the time having to deal with the hidden agendas of men in her party. What shows me that it was her party was that she ran it longer than any other single person, she ran it much more efficently all the while gaining political and financiall support. The only thing in this book that makes me sad is that she had to flee for her life before she could lift the party to it's full potential. I really wish i knew where this wonderful women was today and if little Ericka was fine.
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Summary: It has it's drawbacks, but this is still a powerful work
Review: This book was recommended to me by a professor. This was a powerful book. Elaine Brown shares the triumphs and tribulations of the Party with her readers in this book. She gives us the Party's history and shares a lot of Huey P. Newton's philosophies as well. However,I was turned off by the sexism of the males in the Party and I despised the fact that the author was so gullible when it came to men.
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