Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Originally published in 1974 and written when Angela Davis was 25, this is a fine telling of the situations and struggle of the 60s and 70s. Often misunderstood, Angela did not want to write a 'personal' autobiography and thus was reluctant to do a book like this in the first place. She didn't see herself as that different from the lives of the millions of struggling people that she and her efforts sought to better. Every facet of her own life that she chose to share with us here is tied in some way to that struggle to bring dignity to the masses of human beings exploited throughout the world. What you walk away with after reading this book is how much she really does care about the lives of people. It's not just a bunch of abstract ideas, neat theories, or some trivial intellectual exercise. It really is life and death issues. And she fought for the lives of many as if she would fight for her own.