Manning Marable (1951-2011) was M. Moran Weston and Black Alumni Council Professor of African American Studies and professor of history and public affairs at Columbia University. He was founding director of African American Studies at Columbia from 1993 to 2003, and directed Columbia’s Center for Contemporary Black History. The author of fifteen books, Marable was also the editor of the quarterly journal Souls.
“Malcolm X is etched in the American imagination—and the American
psyche—in the particular and unyielding terms of radical and
militant… Marable brings a lifetime of study to this biography,
which is the crowning achievement of a magnificent career.”--Henry
Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
“Manning Marable is the exemplary black scholar of radical
democracy and black freedom in our time. His long-awaited
magisterial book on Malcolm X is the definitive treatment of the
greatest black radical voice and figure of the mid-twentieth
century. Glory Hallelujah!”--Cornel West, Princeton University
“Manning Marable’s Malcolm X is his magnum opus, a work of
extraordinary rigor and intellectual beauty … 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, Georgetown University,
author of April 4, 1968
"A superbly written and carefully researched biography of the civil
rights icon...I can’t recommend it highly enough."--Laila Lalami,
The New York Times
“It will be difficult for anyone to better this book... It is a
work of art, a feast that combines genres skillfully: biography,
true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full
gallop, a man who died for his belief in freedom.”--The Washington
Post
“In his revealing and prodigiously researched new biography. . .
Mr. Marable artfully strips away the layers and layers of myth that
have been lacquered onto his subject’s life — first by Malcolm
himself in that famous memoir, and later by both supporters and
opponents after his assassination.”--Michiko Kakutani, The New York
Times
“Unlike Bruce Perry’s 1991 biography, Malcolm, which entertained
the most outlandish stories in an attempt to present a
comprehensive portrait, Marable’s biography judiciously sifts fact
from myth.”--The Atlantic
“Magisterial…Marable’s biography is an exceedingly brave as well as
a major intellectual accomplishment.”--Boston Globe
“Marable has crafted an extraordinary portrait of a man and his
time…A masterpiece.”--San Francisco Chronicle
“This book is a must read.”--Ebony
“Thankfully, we have Manning Marable's new biography, Malcolm X: A
Life of Reinvention — which is, simply put, a stunning achievement
— to help us better understand Malcolm’s complex life.”--The
Philadelphia Tribune
“The book also has much to recommend it for its history of orthodox
Islam, the perspective it offers on the black political movements
of the 1950s and 1960s that changed America, and its insights into
the development and inner workings of the Nation of Islam.”--The
Financial Times
“Manning Marable’s scholarship was as provocative and profound as
it was prodigious.”--Newsday
“[Marable] devoted his magnificent career—more than most scholars
do—to living what he wrote and what he thought. His commitment not
only to equality of opportunity but also to the exposure of
falsehood and hypocrisy was a hallmark of his pathbreaking
work.”--The Chronicle of Higher Education
“Marable accomplishes the difficult task of showing the bad boy of
the civil rights era as an actual human being . . . Each page
almost secretes the formidable research into hard facts. Marable
lets the chips fall where they may because he is interested in the
humanity of Malcolm X, as all true scholars should be.”--New York
Daily News
“This is history at its finest—written with passion and attention
and drive. It is a fitting testament to the lives and the legacies
of both subject and author.”--TheBarnesandNobleReview.com
“Marable’s definitive biography is now the standard by which
scholars can evaluate, not just what Malcolm X said, but what
generations of others have said about him.”--The National
“This book is not the only representation of Manning's brilliance…
it is a culmination of a lifetime of scholarship and activism, a
larger project devoted to telling the stories of a people engaged
in an epic, painful and beautiful struggle for
freedom.”--BlackVoices.com
“This superbly perceptive and resolutely honest book will long
endure as a definitive treatment of Malcolm’s life, if not of the
actors complicit in his death.”--The Wilson Quarterly
“The book is cause for celebration . . . The book is full of
revelations, big and small, and amounts to a full-on
reconsideration of Malcolm’s life and
death.”--VeryShortList.com
“As Malcolm lived on through his best-selling autobiography, so
will Marable, through his unmatched body of writing, his
educational contributions, his illuminations on Malcolm X's legacy
and his devoted students.”--CNN.Com
“Manning was an unflinching and breathtakingly prolific scholar
whose commitments to racial, economic, gender, and international
justice were unparalleled . . . That we will have his
long-anticipated, great and final work even as he leaves us is so
classically, tragically appropriate.”--The Nation
“While Marable himself is irreplaceable, he has provided a
foundation for future generations and will continue to shape our
understanding of social change and justice.”--TheRoot.com
“A prolific scholar.”--The Columbia Record
"Malcolm X is etched in the American imagination-and the American
psyche-in the particular and unyielding terms of radical and
militant... Marable brings a lifetime of study to this biography,
which is the crowning achievement of a magnificent
career."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
"Manning Marable is the exemplary black scholar of radical
democracy and black freedom in our time. His long-awaited
magisterial book on Malcolm X is the definitive treatment of the
greatest black radical voice and figure of the mid-twentieth
century. Glory Hallelujah!"--Cornel West, Princeton
University
"Manning Marable's Malcolm X is his magnum opus, a
work of extraordinary rigor and intellectual beauty ... 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,
Georgetown University, author of April 4, 1968
"A superbly written and carefully researched biography of the civil
rights icon...I can't recommend it highly enough."--Laila
Lalami, The New York Times
"It will be difficult for anyone to better this book... It is a
work of art, a feast that combines genres skillfully: biography,
true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full
gallop, a man who died for his belief in freedom."--The Washington
Post
"In his revealing and prodigiously researched new biography. . .
Mr. Marable artfully strips away the layers and layers of myth that
have been lacquered onto his subject's life - first by Malcolm
himself in that famous memoir, and later by both supporters and
opponents after his assassination."--Michiko Kakutani, The
New York Times
"Unlike Bruce Perry's 1991 biography, Malcolm, which entertained
the most outlandish stories in an attempt to present a
comprehensive portrait, Marable's biography judiciously sifts fact
from myth."--The Atlantic
"Magisterial...Marable's biography is an exceedingly brave as well
as a major intellectual accomplishment."--Boston Globe
"Marable has crafted an extraordinary portrait of a man and his
time...A masterpiece."--San Francisco Chronicle
"This book is a must read."--Ebony
"Thankfully, we have Manning Marable's new biography, Malcolm X: A
Life of Reinvention - which is, simply put, a stunning achievement
- to help us better understand Malcolm's complex life."--The
Philadelphia Tribune
"The book also has much to recommend it for its history of orthodox
Islam, the perspective it offers on the black political movements
of the 1950s and 1960s that changed America, and its insights into
the development and inner workings of the Nation of
Islam."--The Financial Times
"Manning Marable's scholarship was as provocative and profound as
it was prodigious."--Newsday
"[Marable] devoted his magnificent career-more than most scholars
do-to living what he wrote and what he thought. His commitment not
only to equality of opportunity but also to the exposure of
falsehood and hypocrisy was a hallmark of his pathbreaking
work."--The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Marable accomplishes the difficult task of showing the bad
boy of the civil rights era as an actual human being . . . Each
page almost secretes the formidable research into hard facts.
Marable lets the chips fall where they may because he is interested
in the humanity of Malcolm X, as all true scholars should be."--New
York Daily News
"This is history at its finest-written with passion and attention
and drive. It is a fitting testament to the lives and the legacies
of both subject and author."--TheBarnesandNobleReview.com
"Marable's definitive biography is now the standard by which
scholars can evaluate, not just what Malcolm X said, but what
generations of others have said about him."--The National
"This book is not the only representation of Manning's
brilliance... it is a culmination of a lifetime of scholarship and
activism, a larger project devoted to telling the stories of a
people engaged in an epic, painful and beautiful struggle for
freedom."--BlackVoices.com
"This superbly perceptive and resolutely honest book will long
endure as a definitive treatment of Malcolm's life, if not of the
actors complicit in his death."--The Wilson Quarterly
"The book is cause for celebration . . . The book is full of
revelations, big and small, and amounts to a full-on
reconsideration of Malcolm's life and
death."--VeryShortList.com
"As Malcolm lived on through his best-selling autobiography, so
will Marable, through his unmatched body of writing, his
educational contributions, his illuminations on Malcolm X's legacy
and his devoted students."--CNN.Com
"Manning was an unflinching and breathtakingly prolific scholar
whose commitments to racial, economic, gender, and international
justice were unparalleled . . . That we will have his
long-anticipated, great and final work even as he leaves us is so
classically, tragically appropriate."--The Nation
"While Marable himself is irreplaceable, he has provided a
foundation for future generations and will continue to shape our
understanding of social change and justice."--TheRoot.com
"A prolific scholar."--The Columbia
Record
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