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Manning Marable was Professor of History and Political Science at Columbia University and director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He was the founding director of the Center for Contemporary Black History, established in 2002 and the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, where he served from 1993 to 2003. He died as the hardback of Malcolm X- A Life of Reinvention was published. The book was a Finalist for the National Book Award 2011.
[A] groundbreaking piece of work. ...The result is not just a
biography, but also a history of Muslims in America and a sweeping
account of one man's transformation... It will be difficult for
anyone to better this book. ... a work of art, a feast that
combines genres skillfully: biography, true-crime, political
commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop.
*Washington Post*
[L]ucid, hugely researched and surely definitive...an extraordinary
story.
*Sunday Times*
[A]n incredibly detailed account of Malcolm's life (and an
investigation of his murder) and it is, of course, completely
riveting....it is inevitably much more than a biography of one
man... Marable is intensely and intimately sympathetic.
*New Yorker*
In the pantheon of black American protest figures only Martin
Luther King occupies a more exalted position, but it is Malcolm X
whose legend has the greater street credibility and aura of
cool...Now, almost a half century [after his assassination],
Malcolm has finally received the biography that his unique role in
black culture demands...A meticulous, comprehensive, and
fair-minded portrait.
*Observer*
Professor Manning Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention is
encyclopaedic in its approach. The endnotes and bibliography
indicate the staggering breadth and depth of scholarship
underpinning this volume....Undoubtedly it will stand as a last
lecture on the subject by one of America's most distinguished
historians.
*Financial Times*
[A] wealth of detail, some of it new, some of it old stories
confirmed...At the end of it all, Malcolm X remains Malcolm X, for
good or ill, one of the most fascinating historical figures of the
20th Century...a labour of love...a courageous endeavour.
*Guardian*
Malcolm's short life (he was slain at 39) makes a fascinating
story...Mr Marable has scoured contemporary press clippings in
America, Europe and Africa...and benefitted...from the recent
release to the public of hundreds of Malcolm's letters, photographs
and texts of speeches.
*The Economist*
Marable gives us all the raw material for a harshly critical
appraisal... Marable's is very far from the first biography of
Malcolm, but it is undoubtedly the most penetrating and thoroughly
researched. It clearly surpasses the best previous effort, Bruce
Perry's 1991 study
*The Independent*
By the end of the 1960s, Malcolm's disciples had elevated him to
what Manning Marable, in this weighty biography, calls 'secular
sainthood'; in death, his image was quickly refashioned to 'embody
the very ideal of blackness for an entire generation'... But
Marable... resists the temptation of hagiography and fills in the
gaps left by previous books. Where the autobiography, carefully
organised by the NOI-sceptic Haley, presents an idealised vision of
a man's growth as a thinker, Marable gives us Malcolm in all his
self-contradiction and self-doubt... By refusing to pin him down,
he offers glimpses of the human being behind the legend.
*New Statesman*
Striking... Marable is intensely sympathetic but always conscious
of the contradictions of his subject...the fulfilment of a life's
work
*Prospect*
From petty criminal to drug user to prisoner to minister to
separatist to humanist to martyr. Marable, who worked for more than
a decade on the book and died earlier this year, offers a more
complete and unvarnished portrait of Malcolm X than the one found
in his autobiography. The story remains inspiring
*New York Times*
An exploration of the legendary life and provocative views of one
of the most significant African-Americans in U.S. history, a work
that separates fact from fiction and blends the heroic and
tragic
*Pulitzer Prize in History 2012 award citation*
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