'If Pearson's assessment of Newton was accurate,' summarized one critic, 'then the BPP leader was little more than an intelligent, drug-addicted sociopath.' Yeah, that about sums it up, if all you know about Huey comes from this book. Though widely panned by Black Panther supporters, the book reads well, powered by a detailed examination of a grim Huey Newton on an egomaniacal crash course. honest and compelling judgment.'- Detroit News set out to write a very different book about his boyhood hero but didn't blink at the truth. Pearson has been able to present enough hard evidence to draw a chilling portrait of Murder Incorporated in revolutionary dress.'- New York Newsday 'This book will awaken profound misgivings-about gun-barrel rhetoric, about armed rebellion, about the ambiguities of justice.'- The New Yorker white chauvinism.'- Los Angeles Times Book Review Pearson nevertheless portrays the Panthers' rise as an understandable reaction against. 'A keenly observed, often brilliant, Panther-busting book. A Notable Book of the Year.'- New York Times Book Review (front page) 'Until The Shadow of the Panther there have been no serious book-length attempts to examine the Panthers' history and to evaluate their significance. The first complete and balanced history of the Black Panther Party-powerful and provocative