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The autobiography of malcolm x

X, Malcolm (Author).

Summary: Now available as an eBook for the very first time! • ONE OF TIME'S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY With its first great victory in the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, the civil rights movement gained the powerful momentum it needed to sweep forward into its crucial decade, the 1960s. As voices of protest and change rose above the din of history and false promises, one voice sounded more urgently, more passionately, than the rest. Malcolm X--once called the most dangerous man in America--challenged the world to listen and learn the truth as he experienced it. And his enduring message is as relevant today as when he first delivered it. In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement...

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  • ISBN: 9781101967805 (electronic bk)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource
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  • Publisher: 2015.

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Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. New York : Ballantine Books, 2015. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 989 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).
Genre: Electronic books.

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  • Baker & Taylor
    The black leader discusses his political philosophy and reveals details of his life, shedding light on the ideas that enabled him to gain the allegiance of a still growing percentage of the black population. Reprint. 75,000 first printing. Major ad/promo.
  • Random House, Inc.
    Now available as an eBook for the very first time! ' ONE OF TIME's TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
     
    In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X stands as the definitive statement of a movement and a man whose work was never completed but whose message is timeless. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand America.
     
    Praise for The Autobiography of Malcolm X
     
    'malcolm X's autobiography seemed to offer something different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged through sheer force of will.''Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father

    "Extraordinary . . . a brilliant, painful, important book.''The New York Times
     
    'A great book . . . Its dead level honesty, its passion, its exalted purpose, will make it stand as a monument to the most painful truth.''The Nation
     
    'the most important book I'll ever read, it changed the way I thought, it changed the way I acted. It has given me courage I didn't know I had inside me. I'm one of hundreds of thousands whose lives were changed for the better.''spike Lee
     
    'this book will have a permanent place in the literature of the Afro-American struggle.''I. F. Stone
  • Random House, Inc.
    ONE OF TIME’S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

    In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X stands as the definitive statement of a movement and a man whose work was never completed but whose message is timeless. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand America.

    Praise for The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    “Extraordinary . . . a brilliant, painful, important book.”—The New York Times

    “This book will have a permanent place in the literature of the Afro-American struggle.”—I. F. Stone

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