aldridge cleaver joins the party and eldridge cleaver had just gotten out of jail. but aldridge cleaver had written ," whilek, "soul on ice in prison, and the book was in the top 10 of the "new york times" best sellers. you have this guy who is this literary star who says i will join this group. that helps to increase the mystique of the black panthers. john: you talk about how the group changed and they started doing other things it like a lot of groups on the left and they started caring about community health and education and other things in inner city areas. but again, the image of them was for a lotful, right, of people come one of the most social-literary journalism is one tom wolfe chic, andt radical the leonard bernstein fundraiser for the black panthers in new york city in 1970 or so. what was it about the black panthers that was so seductive, in your view, to certain segments of the white left? stanley: i think the panthers were seductive to everybody. they were great and using the media. they had this look we had never seen before. rightsditional civil m