An edition of Autobiografía Malcolm X (1965)

The autobiography of Malcolm X

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An edition of Autobiografía Malcolm X (1965)

The autobiography of Malcolm X

1st Ballantine Books hardcover ed.
  • 4.2 (23 ratings) ·
  • 559 Want to read
  • 30 Currently reading
  • 37 Have read

"With its first great victory in the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. 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 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."--BOOK JACKET.

"This is the first hardcover edition of this classic autobiography since it was originally published in 1964. In its searing pages, Malcolm X the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement to veteran writer and journalist Alex Haley.

In a unique collaboration, Alex Haley worked with Malcolm X for nearly two years, interviewing, listening to, and understanding the most controversial leader of his time."--BOOK JACKET.

"Raised in Lansing, Michigan, Malcolm Little's road to world fame was as astonishing as it was unpredictable. After drifting from childhood poverty to petty crime, Malcolm found himself in jail. It was there that he came into contact with the teachings of a little-known Black Muslim leader named Elijah Muhammed. The newly renamed Malcolm X devoted himself body and soul to the teachings of Elijah Muhammed and the world of Islam, and became the Nation's foremost spokesman.

When his own conscience forced him to break with Elijah Muhammed, Malcolm founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity, to reach African Americans across the country with an inspiring message of pride, power, and self-determination."--BOOK JACKET.

"The Autobiography of Malcolm X defines American culture and the African-American struggle for social and economic equality that has now become a battle for survival. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its non-white citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issue of our day."--BOOK JACKET.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
500

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Cover of: The autobiography of Malcolm X
The autobiography of Malcolm X
1999-03, Ballantine Books
Hardcover in English - 1st Ballantine Books hardcover ed.
Cover of: Die Autobiographie
Die Autobiographie
1992, Agipa-Press
in German
Cover of: Malcolm X Die Autobiographie
Malcolm X Die Autobiographie
1992-01-01
in German
Cover of: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
October 12, 1987, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: Autobiography of malcolm x.
Autobiography of malcolm x.
1987, Ballantine
in English
Cover of: Autobiog of Malcolm X
Autobiog of Malcolm X
July 12, 1980, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
May 12, 1969, Random House
in English
Cover of: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Cover of: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
1965, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: The autobiography of Malcolm X
The autobiography of Malcolm X
1965, Ballantine
Paperback in English

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Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Grove Press, 1965.

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.5/4/092, B
Library of Congress
BP223.Z8 L57943 1992, BP223.Z8, BP223.Z8 L57943 1999

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xii, 500 p. ;
Number of pages
500

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1743891M
Internet Archive
autobiographyofm00xmal_0
ISBN 10
0345379756
LCCN
92052659
OCLC/WorldCat
26096589, 123290085
Library Thing
85781
Goodreads
955909

Work Description

Biografía del líder negro americano religioso y activista que nació Malcolm Little, publicado en 1965. Escrito por Alex Haley, que había llevado a cabo extensas entrevistas grabadas con Malcolm X antes de su asesinato en 1965, el libro ganó fama como un trabajo clásico en negro experiencia americana.

La autobiografía es contada a través de la voz en primera persona de Malcolm X con contenido añadido y narrativa proporcionada por Alex Haley. Aunque a veces auto-engrandecimiento, Malcolm X habla de su extraordinaria transformación de un niño cuyo padre fue asesinado por racistas blancos, a un joven estafador y traficante de drogas en Harlem, Nueva York, a un erudito autodidacta en la cárcel, a un destacado líder y ministro de la Nación del Islam, y, finalmente, a un hombre transformado por su viaje a África y a la Meca y se marca como una amenaza por parte de los líderes de la Nación del Islam.

A través de una vida de pasión y lucha, Malcolm X se convirtió en una de las figuras más influyentes del siglo 20. Aquí, el hombre que se hacía llamar "el hombre más enojado Negro en América" ​​relata cómo su conversión al Islam le ayudó a enfrentarse a su ira y reconocer la hermandad de toda la humanidad. Un clásico establecida de la América moderna, la autobiografía de Malcolm X fue aclamado por el New York Times como "Extraordinaria. Una brillante, libro doloroso, importante. "La fuerza de sus palabras, el poder de sus ideas siguen resonando más de una generación después de su aparición.

Excerpts

Bad people are always speculating—why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

Today, when everything I do has an urgency, I would not spend one hour in the preparation of a book which had the ambition to perhaps titillate some readers. But I am spending many hours because the full story is the best way that I know to have it seen, and understood, that I had sunk to the very bottom of the American white man's society hen—soon now, in prison—I found Allah and the religion of Islam and it completely transformed my life.
Page 173, added by ZombieRecollect.

Malcolm X makes clear why he feels it is important to share his early life and struggle with substance use disorder.

Any person who claims to have deep feelings for other human beings should think a long, long time before he votes to have other men kept behind bars—caged. I'm not saying there shouldn't be prisons, but there shouldn't be bars. Behind bars, a man never reforms.
Page 176, added by ZombieRecollect.

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