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THE MORNING BREAKS: The Trial of Angela Davis
by Bettina Aptheker
(Cornell University Press, 1999. 294 pp.) A NATION WITHIN A NATION: Amid Baraka (Leroi Jones) & Black Power Politics
by Komozi Woodard
(The University of North Carolina Press, 1999.329 pp.)
Bliss it was to be young in the 1960s, but to be black and angry was very heaven-or so one might gather from these two books. They offer glimpses of two of the last of the true believers, Angela Davis and Amiri Baraka, from two of their most devoted admirers. Aptheker's book is a republication of her 1975 account of Davis' trial for murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy-a story that...