first paperback edition
Published Dec. 20, 1966 by Grove Press, Inc..
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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With the assistance of Alex Haley
Introduction by M. S. Handler
Epilogue by Alex Haley
This is the absorbing personal story of the man who rose from hoodlum, thief, dope peddler, and pimp to become the most dynamic leader of the Black Revolution. It is, too, a testament of great emotional power from which every American can learn much. But, above all, this book shows the Malcolm X that very few people knew, the man behind the stereotyped image of the hate-preacher—a sensitive, proud, highly intelligent man whose plan to move into the mainstream of the Negro Revolution was cut short by a hail of assassins' bullets, a man who felt certain he would not live long enough to see this book appear.
"In the agony of this brilliant Negro's self-creation [is] the agony of an entire people in their search for identity. No man has better expressed his people's …
With the assistance of Alex Haley
Introduction by M. S. Handler
Epilogue by Alex Haley
This is the absorbing personal story of the man who rose from hoodlum, thief, dope peddler, and pimp to become the most dynamic leader of the Black Revolution. It is, too, a testament of great emotional power from which every American can learn much. But, above all, this book shows the Malcolm X that very few people knew, the man behind the stereotyped image of the hate-preacher—a sensitive, proud, highly intelligent man whose plan to move into the mainstream of the Negro Revolution was cut short by a hail of assassins' bullets, a man who felt certain he would not live long enough to see this book appear.
"In the agony of this brilliant Negro's self-creation [is] the agony of an entire people in their search for identity. No man has better expressed his people's trapped anguish." —The New York Review of Books
