Page
after page recounts interrogations, torture, brainwashing, deception, and killing sprees — all aimed at wiping out faith in anything other than the State, and especially faith in a God who transcended the State.
The collection was titled, The Books in Fred Hampton's Apartment,
after a short and brilliant essay on
page 70 that
recounted Stern's visit to the Black Panther leader's apartment just
after he was gunned down by Chicago police in a predawn raid in December of 1969.