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The author begins with a long-winded account of the assassination of Malcolm X, and then begins to tell his life story, starting from Malcolm's grandparents.The book is highly detailed, but interrupted by the author's opinions and editorials, and excessively detailed and repetitive.I had been listening for a week to this audiobook and Malcolm X had only reached age 18. At this point, he is a career criminal. I tired of listening to the long-windiness of the account and returned this book to the library.
I happened to just pick this up in an airport bookstore on my way back to London at the beginning of this year and ended up devouring it. It paints a fantastic historical picture of the civil rights movement as well as of the conditions in the US that produced a man like Malcom X and a movement like the nation of Islam. If you are at all interested in either the person or the period I strongly recommend this book as a place to start!
Great work done to try to explain one of the most enigmatic personalities of our times.
*Read for school
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