Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
by Manning Marable
Marable's Pulitzer biography, correcting the Autobiography: Malcolm's many selves, the Nation, Mecca, the assassination. Scholarly and revealing.
Read it if…
you have read the Autobiography and want the history.
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Skip it if…
you want his voice; read the Autobiography first.
Try instead: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom →
Three things you will actually use
- Reinvention is possible to the end.
- Question your own teachers.
- Growth costs.
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Read the final year.
Our verdict
Malcolm, by Marable.
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