San Antonio College Library

When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are prowling a remote corner of his home state of New Mexico, he embarks on a determined quest to see in the flesh a big, beautiful cat that is the stuff of legend - yet verifiably real. Mahler's passion sets in motion a years-long adventure through trackless deserts, steamy jungles, and malarial swamps, as well as a confounding immersion in centuries-old debates over how we should...

"American justice ... and the violent fears that underscore it ... is the theme of Murray Kempton's brilliant examination of the landmark trial of a group of young men and women who came to be called the Panther 21. At five o'clock in the morning of April 2, 1969, approximately 100 members of the Special Services Division of the New York City Police Dept. were dispatched to capture 19 of the 21 persons, ' many of them Black Panthers, ' who had been...

"Early one morning in the remote hill country of Texas, a panther savagely attacks a family of homesteaders, mauling a young girl named Samantha and killing her mother, whose final act is to save her daughter's life. Samantha and her half brother, Benjamin, survive, but she is left traumatized, her face horribly scarred ... The Which Way Tree is the story of Samantha's unshakable resolve to stalk and kill the infamous panther, rumored across the Rio...

"Drawing extensively on published interviews and articles from the radical leftist press and other periodicals, Rout meshes biography, social commentary, and analyses of Cleaver's writings from Soul on ice through Eldridge Cleaver: post-prison writings and speeches and Soul on fire"--From Book News, Inc. (Portland, Oregon).

Controversy swirled around the Black Panthers from the moment the revolutionary black nationalist Party was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. Since that time, the group that J. Edgar Hoover called "the single greatest threat to the nation's internal security" has been celebrated and denigrated, deified and vilified. Rarely, though, has it received the sort of analysis offered in this interdisciplinary collection. Historians, along with scholars...