Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, the definitive biography of Malcolm X.
Hailed as "a masterpiece" (San Francisco Chronicle), the late Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial figures of twentieth-century American history. Filled with startling new information and shocking revelations, Malcolm X unfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America. Reaching into Malcolm's troubled youth, it traces a path from his parents' activism as followers of Marcus Garvey through his own work with the Nation of Islam and rise in the world of black nationalism, and culminates in the never-before-told true story of his assassination. Malcolm X is a stunning achievement, the definitive work on one of our greatest advocates for social change.
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, the definitive biography of Malcolm X.
Hailed as "a masterpiece" (San Francisco Chronicle), the late Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial figures of twentieth-century American history. Filled with startling new information and shocking revelations, Malcolm X unfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America. Reaching into Malcolm's troubled youth, it traces a path from his parents' activism as followers of Marcus Garvey through his own work with the Nation of Islam and rise in the world of black nationalism, and culminates in the never-before-told true story of his assassination. Malcolm X is a stunning achievement, the definitive work on one of our greatest advocates for social change.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, the definitive biography of Malcolm X.
Hailed as "a masterpiece" (San Francisco Chronicle), the late Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial figures of twentieth-century American history. Filled with startling new information and shocking revelations, Malcolm X unfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America. Reaching into Malcolm's troubled youth, it traces a path from his parents' activism as followers of Marcus Garvey through his own work with the Nation of Islam and rise in the world of black nationalism, and culminates in the never-before-told true story of his assassination. Malcolm X is a stunning achievement, the definitive work on one of our greatest advocates for social change.
Manning Marable (1951-2011) was M. Moran Weston and Black Alumni Council Professor of African American Studies and professor of history and public affairs at Columbia University. He was founding director of African American Studies at Columbia from 1993 to 2003, and directed Columbia’s Center for Contemporary Black History. The author of fifteen books, Marable was also the editor of the quarterly journal Souls.
Table of Contents
Prologue Life Beyond the Legend 1
Chapter 1 "Up, You Mighty Race! " 1925-1941 15
Chapter 2 The Legend of Detroit Red 1941-January 1946 39
Chapter 3 Becoming "X" January 1946-August 1952 70
Chapter 4 "They Don't Come Like the Minister" August 1952-May 1957 100
Chapter 5 "Brother, a Minister Has to Be Married" May 1957-March 1959 130
Chapter 6 "The Hate That Hate Produced" March 1959-January 1961 155
Chapter 7 "As Sure As God Made Green Apples" January 1961-May 1962 180
Chapter 8 From Prayer to Protest May 1962-March 1963 211
Chapter 9 "He Was Developing Too Fast" April-November 1963 235
Chapter 10 "The Chickens Coming Home to Roost" December 1, 1963-March 12,1964 269
Chapter 11 An Epiphany in the Hajj March 12-May 21, 1964 297
Chapter 12 "Do Something About Malcolm X" May 21-July 11, 1964 321
Chapter 13 "In the Struggle for Dignity" July 11-November 24,1964 360
Chapter 14 "Such a Man Is Worthy of Death" November 24,1964-February 14,1965 388
Chapter 15 Death Comes on Time February 14-February 21, 1965 418
Chapter 16 Life After Death 450
Epilogue Reflections on a Revolutionary Vision 479
“In his revealing and prodigiously researched new biography. . . Mr. Marable artfully strips away the layers and layers of myth that have been lacquered onto his subject’s life — first by Malcolm himself in that famous memoir, and later by both supporters and opponents after his assassination.”
Cornel West
“Manning Marable is the exemplary black scholar of radical democracy and black freedom in our time. His long-awaited magisterial book on Malcolm X is the definitive treatment of the greatest black radical voice and figure of the mid-twentieth century. Glory Hallelujah!”
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
“Malcolm X is etched in the American imagination—and the American psyche—in the particular and unyielding terms of radical and militant… Marable brings a lifetime of study to this biography, which is the crowning achievement of a magnificent career.”
Michael Eric Dyson
“Manning Marable’s Malcolm X is his magnum opus, a work of extraordinary rigor and intellectual beauty … This majestic and eloquent tour de force will stand for some time as the definitive work on as enigmatic and electrifying a leader as has ever sprung from American soil.”
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