Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention [Paperback]

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, the definitive biography of Malcolm X.

Hailed as a masterpiece (San Francisco Chronicle), the late Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial figures of twentieth-century American history. Filled with startling new information and shocking revelations,Malcolm Xunfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America. Reaching into Malcolm's troubled youth, it traces a path from his parents' activism as followers of Marcus Garvey through his own work with the Nation of Islam and rise in the world of black nationalism, and culminates in the never-before-told true story of his assassination.Malcolm Xis a stunning achievement, the definitive work on one of our greatest advocates for social change.“Malcolm X is etched in the American imagination—and the American psyche—in the particular and unyielding terms of radical and militant… Marable brings a lifetime of study to this biography, which is the crowning achievement of a magnificent career.”

 

—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University

 “Manning Marable is the exemplary black scholar of radical democracy and black freedom in our time. His long-awaited magisterial book on Malcolm X is the definitive treatment of the greatest black radical voice and figure of the mid-twentieth century. Glory Hallelujah!”

 

—Cornel West, Princeton University

 “Manning Marable’sMalcolm Xis his magnum opus, a work of extraordinary rigor and intellectual beauty … This majestic and eloquent tour de force will stand for some time as the definitive work on as enigmatic and electrifying a leader as has ever sprung from American soil.” 

 

—Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University, author ofApril 4, 1968

A suplƒ*