Frantz Fanon biography chronicles the life and legacy of a revolutionary icon

Frantz Fanon biography chronicles the life and legacy of a revolutionary icon Fanon, who died in 1961, wrote about the politics and psychology of colonialism. His life and work are the subject of a new biography by Adam Shatz called "The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives Of Frantz Fanon." Doctor, psychiatrist, writer and apostle of revolutionary violence, Fanon is the subject of a fascinating new biography, "The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives Of Frantz Fanon." Reading "The Rebel's Clinic" 60 years after Fanon's death, you realize that this incandescent thinker's ideas about race, struggle, freedom and violence have not lost their power to illuminate and burn.