Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more
complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story,
he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled
by assassins' bullets at age thirty-nine. Through his tireless work and countless

Manning Marable's new biography of Malcolm is a stunning achievement. Filled with
new information and shocking revelations that go beyond the Autobiography, Malcolm X
unfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America, from the rise of Marcus
Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan to the struggles of the civil rights movement in the
fifties and sixties. Reaching into Malcolm's troubled youth, it traces a path from
his parents' activism through his own engagement with the Nation of Islam, charting
his astronomical rise in the world of Black Nationalism and culminating in the never-
before-told true story of his assassination. Malcolm X will stand as the definitive
work on one of the most singular forces for social change, capturing with revelatory
clarity a man who constantly strove, in the great American tradition, to remake
himself anew.

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