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ANGELA DAVIS
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

One of the best works to date on the American revolutionary counter culture is the recent Random House publication, An Autobiography, by Angela Davis.

Writing in a dramatic, narrative style, Ms. Davis unfolds her life's story with a fetching, poetic prose that reaches out and wraps itself around the reader to hold her/him enthralled from first to last.

Unlike most works in this genre, Autobiography begins en medias rex, at one of the most decisive moments of the author's life.

Ms. Davis, at age 26, in the heat of the summer of 1970, is in flight from the state of California and the FBI, wanted on charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy.

This dilemma--and the flight, capture and trial it involves--form the frame for Autobiography.

The opening chapter deals with Ms. Davis' fugitive existence, seizure and imprisonment in New York. The closing pages of the book relate the events of her trial a