by Manning Marable

"Manning Marable's Malcolm X is his magnum opus, a work of extraordinary rigor and intellectual beauty that brims with startling insights and fresh revelations about one of the most compelling figures of the twentieth century. Marable paints a brilliant portrait of Malcolm and vividly captures the complicated outlines of black life at a critical juncture in American history. 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."...Michael Eric Dyson