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A Life of Reinvention
Viking Adult
April 2011
On Sale: April 4, 2011
608 pages
ISBN: 0670022209
EAN: 9780670022205
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
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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