Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780882681214)

This fascinating psychological portrait, strikingly different from the one given in the Autobiography, is of a man who was abused by both his parents, who never shook off the conflicts of his troubled youth, and whose internalized messages of racial ambivalence continued to plague him throughout his brilliant career. As no other book has done, Malcolm traces the entire life of this heroic figure, from his birth in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925, his youthful struggles with deprivation and drug addiction, his life-threatening prison experience and conversion to Islam, through his emergence as a Muslim leader and spokesman for a restless America, and finally to his death by assassination. Exhaustively researched, this first comprehensive biography of Malcolm X is based on the oral and written accounts of over 400 people who knew him, as well as government files and Malcolm's letters. ...paints a rich, full, and fair portrait of the man...what it gives us is not a diminished Malcolm, for his heroism, his brilliance...charm...wit...necessity have never been as sympathetically or absorbingly rendered.-The Los Angeles Times

Author: Bruce Perry
ISBN-10: 0882681214
ISBN-13: 9780882681214
Publisher: Station Hill Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1995
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.67lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.01w x 1.73d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/12/1992