Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, 2006. First edition - A book which "chronicles how violence brought about the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, dominated its policies, and finally destroyed the party as one member after another Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton, Alex Rackley left the party, was killed, or was imprisoned. Austin shows how the partys early emphasis in the 1960s on self-defense, though sorely needed in black communities at the time, left it open to mischaracterization, infiltration, and devastation by local, state, and federal police forces and government agencies. . . [A book which puts] the violent history of the party in perspective and shows that the survival programs, such as the Free Breakfast for Children program and Free Health Clinics, helped the black communities they served to recognize their own bases of power and ability to save themselves." Foreword by Elbert "Big Man" Howard; chronology of the Black Panther Party, several appendices, notes, bibliographic essay, bibliography. xxix, 438 pp.