activist.
Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none
is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting
his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an
icon, all before being felled by assassins' bullets at age thirty-
nine. Through his tireless work and countless speeches he empowered
hundreds of thousands of black Americans to create better lives and
stronger communities while establishing the template for the self-
actualized, independent African American man. In death he became a
broad symbol of both resistance and reconciliation for millions around
the world.
Manning Marable's new biography of Malcolm is a stunning achievement.
Filled with new information and shocking revelations that go beyond
the Autobiography, Malcolm X unfolds a sweeping story of race and
class in America, from the rise of Marcus Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan
to the struggles of the civil rights movement in the fifties and
sixties. Reaching into Malcolm's troubled youth, it traces a path from
his parents' activism through his own engagement with the Nation of
Islam, charting his astronomical rise in the world of Black
Nationalism and culminating in the never-before-told true story of his
assassination. Malcolm X will stand as the definitive work on one of
the most singular forces for social change, capturing with revelatory
clarity a man who constantly strove, in the great American tradition,
to remake himself anew.
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