Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Constantly rewriting his own story, Malcolm X became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and eventually an icon, assassinated at the age of 39. The details of his life have long since calcified into a familiar narrative: his early years as a vagabond in Boston and New York, his conversion to Islam and subsequent rise to prominence as a militant advocate for black rights, his acrimonious split with the Nation of Islam, and ultimately his violent death at their hands. Yet this story, told and retold to various ends by writers, historians, and filmmakers, captures only a snapshot, a fraction of the man in full. Manning Marable's biography unfolds a sweeping story of the darkest days of racial unrest, from the rise of the Ku Klux Klan to the struggles of the civil rights movement, examining his engagement with the Nation of Islam, and the romantic relationships whose energy alternately drained him and pushed him to unimagined heights.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Year
- 2011
- ISBN-13
- 9780141967202
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Civil rights movementNation of IslamRacial injustice
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for HistoryWonMajor(2012)
- Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionShortlistedMajor(2012)
- J. Anthony Lukas Book PrizeShortlisted(2012)
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or AutobiographyShortlistedMajor(2012)
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyShortlisted(2011)
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(2011)
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