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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

byManning Marable

In Malcolm X, Manning Marable presents a biographical portrait centered on a Life of Reinvention. The book builds its explanation through key episodes, competing interests, and the setting supplied by the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant. It is written for readers seeking substance as well as a clear path through the material.

Publisher

Penguin Books

Publication date

2011

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780143120322