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Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black 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... read more

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  1. Manning Marable (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 9780670022205
Page Count: 594

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  • Library of Congress: BP223.Z8 L57636
  • Dewey: 297.87

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  • Book Review New York Times: In his revealing and prodigiously researched new biography, “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,” Manning Marable — a professor at Columbia University and the director of its Center for Contemporary Black History, who died just last week — vividly chronicles these many incarnations of his subject, describing the “multiple masks” he donned over the years, while charting the complex and contradiction-filled evolution of his political and religious beliefs. The book draws from diaries, letters, F.B.I. files, Web resources and interviews with members of Malcolm X’s inner circle.
  • Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention: Official blog of the book.

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  • By Any Means Necessary (Malcolm X Speeches & Writings)
  • Growing Up X
  • Last Year of Malcolm X: The Evolution of a Revolutionary
  • Revolution, Internationalism, and Socialism: The Last Year of Malcolm X (New International no. 14) (New International)
  • Malcolm X : The Last Speeches
  • By Any Means Necessary (Malcolm X Speeches & Writings)

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • The Civil Rights Movement (Seminar Studies in History Series)
  • Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (African American History (Penguin))
  • Origins of the Civil Rights Movements
  • Free At Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle
  • Freedom's Children
  • At the Dark End of the Street

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  • The Koran
  • Message to the Blackman in America
  • Here I Stand
  • The Reluctant African
  • The Black Muslims in America
  • When the Word Is Given
  • Black Bourgeoisie
  • Mein Kampf
  • The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
  • The Black Shields
  • This was Harlem: A cultural portrait, 1900-1950
  • Che Guevara
  • The Heart of a Woman
  • A Song Flung Up to Heaven
  • No god but God

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