The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz

Frantz Fanon was a black, Marxist, French West Indian psychiatrist who became involved with the freedom movements in Algeria. He wrote some influential books, notable  Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth. He explored the poor position of the dark-skinned and colonized. Both the colonized and the colonizers contributed to the negative worldview of lower-class citizens of the colony. He at first adopted a "universal French" worldview, but later shifted to side more strongly with the oppressed. He became involved with the independence movement in Algeria, despite being an outsider. He passed away at a long age while trying to get leukemia treatment in America.  (There was suspicion of mistreatment. However, the CIA had wanted to support him as an allie, so it could have been plain old bureaucracy.) 

The book adopts a distant tone. It feels the author has respect for him, but is looking at him as a figure from a great distance. It feels that too much time is spent discussing his works, and not enough is spent on his life.