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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 his enlightening pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as his dispute with Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam. Malcolm X became a major, if controversial, figure on the American scene as a speaker, preaching on self-esteem and identity, giving hope, and telling it like it was. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X, which was published after Malcolm's 1965 assassination, was an influential book in its time. It is said to have influenced the Black Power movement, and was on many university reading lists. It has 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.
| Size | | Length: | 527 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 13.6 oz |
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."
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