Malcolm X

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Groundbreaking.. . It will be difficult for anyone to better this book.. .a work of art a feast that combines genres skilfully: biography true-crime political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop". (Wil Haygood " Washington Post"). " He was a country bumpkin who became a zoot-suited entertainer who became a petty criminal who became a self-taught intellectual.. . In his revealing & prodigiously researched new biography Marable vividly chronicles these many incarnations of Malcolm X describing the "multiple masks" he donned over the years". (Michiko Kakutani " The New York Times"). " Explodes the myths that obscure the real man". (Hugh Muir " Guardian"). " By the end of the 1960s Malcolms disciples had elevated him to what Manning Marable calls "secular sainthood".. . But Marable resists the temptation of hagiography & fills in the gaps left by previous books. He gives us Malcolm in all his self-contradiction & self-doubt". (Yo Zushi " New Statesman"). " Lucid hugely researched & surely definitive.. .an extraordinary story". (Dominic Sandbrook " Sunday Times"). " Here at last is the meticulous portrait he deserves". (Andrew Anthony " Observer")."