Sunday 10 July 2016

Blood In My Eye - George Jackson


PENGUIN BOOKS 01400.38787
MIDDLESEX, UK
FIRST PRINTING 1975
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY JONATHAN CAPE 1972
COVER PHOTO BY PAUL POPPER LTD

George Jackson completed the manuscript of Blood in my Eye just a few days before he was shot and killed while, it is alleged, attempting to escape from the maximum-security prison at San Quentin. His story became known to millions with the publication of Soledad Brother.

Blood in my Eye takes up where Soledad Brother left off - it is a devastating and passionate critique of American society and a programme for destruction.

'Whether or not George Jackson's analysis proves prophetic, the power and despairing clarity of his writing makes him one of the great voices of the American Left.'
- Sunday Times

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