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Synopsis
Born Malcolm Little, and known as Detroit Red during his years as a petty criminal in Harlem, Malcolm X turned his life around, and here tells his story to Alex Haley, the famed author of ROOTS. In this autobiography, Malcolm recalls his troubled upbringing, candidly reveals his sordid past, and tells of his jailhouse conversion to Islam. He includes an account of his enlightening pilgrimage to Mecca as well as his dispute with Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam. As a speaker, Malcolm X became a major, if controversial, figure on the American scene, preaching on self-esteem and identity, giving hope, and generally "telling it like it was." THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X, which was published after Malcolm's 1965 assassination, was said to have influenced the Black Power movement. A staple on many university reading lists, it has also been a perennial bestseller as a mass-market paperback. In 1992, director Spike Lee filmed MALCOLM X, starring Denzel Washington, for which both Alex Haley and Malcolm X were given writer's credits.
Industry Reviews
"The great revelation comes in the Epilogue by his perceptive and enormously skillful amanuensis, Alex Haley....Viewed in its complete historical context, this is indeed a great book. Its dead-level honesty, its passion, its exalted purpose, even its manifold unsolved ambiguities will make it stand as a monument to the most painful of truths: that this country, this people, this Western world has practiced unspeakable cruelty against a race, an individual, who might have made its fraudulent humanism a reality."
Nation - T. Nelson (11/08/1965)
"Though Haley has captured Malcolm's style and Malcolm's anger, the book somehow is a curiously external record, a verbal kinescope that sheds little light on Malcolm's tormented soul. Yet it is filled with power and passion, as it follows the stations of Malcolm's journey from the cross to the crescent of Islam."
Neff
"The autobiography is revelatory not only of Malcolm but also of diverse black members of this 'pluralistic' society whom hardly any whites have begun to know--their values, their affirmations, their evasions, their ways of wit, rage, and sorrow."
Commonweal - Nat Hentoff (01/28/1966)
"The modest hero of [this book] is really Alex Haley, who provides in his introduction a frank and just appreciation of Malcolm X and whose task it was, at snatched moments over two hectic years, first to win Malcolm's confidence and then persuade him to tell his story fully. The result is beyond praise, for one must instantly feel that though this is technically a ghosted book, it is Malcolm's thought and voice we are hearing all the time."
Spectator - Colin MacInnes (05/27/1966)
"From tape-recorded conversations..., Alex Haley put together the Autobiography; he did his job with sensitivity and with devotion....[The book] will have a permanent place in the literature of the Afro-American struggle."
New York Review of Books - I.F. Stone (11/01/1965)
"As one reads the AUTOBIOGRAPHY, one feels that, whatever the historical importance of Malcolm Little, that it has something of tragic intensity and meaning."
Yale Review - Robert Penn Warren (01/01/1965)
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