Malcolm X : A Life of Reinvention

from reluctantm

Incredibly detailed and well-researched. But I don't feel after reading it that I have any better a feel for Malcolm X than I did after reading his autobiography. Everything is there and presented linearly, but it's really quite dry, even though the content is amazingly interesting.

from The_Hibernator

In Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, Manning Marable set out to honestly portray a man and to humanize an icon. Marable intended on filling in holes left by truth-bending and necessary lack-of-future-knowledge in The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Since I am not an expert on the subject, I have to s...

from HadriantheBlind

Incendiary biography of a powerful and complex man. I felt somewhat disheartened to read some of the things I did about him, but then again, few of the figures around him were free of faults. The fact still remains that Malcolm X was a visionary who rose up from nothing and was willing to die for...

from librarianbryan

The arc of Malcolm's life that has became part of our national collective consciousness is not fundamentally different from what is presented here. Marable does clarify a lot of facts and unearths some unanswered questions surrounding Malcolm's murder. I'm only giving it four stars because it doe...

from Narboink

Having never read "The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley," I was hopeful that Marable's biography would be a more thorough, scholarly, and perhaps accurate telling of Malcolm's story; hence my choice. Like many Americans, I'm fairly well informed about the Civil Rights Movement (a...