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The Death and Life of Malcolm X

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The Death and Life of Malcolm X provides a dramatic portrait of one of the most important black leaders of the twentieth century. Focusing on Malcolm X's rise to prominence and the final year of his life, the book details his rift with the Nation of Islam and its leader, Elijah Muhammad, leading to death threats and eventually assassination at the hands of a death squad. In a new preface for this edition, Peter Goldman reflects on the forty years since the book's first publication and considers new information based on FBI surveillance that has since come to light.| Cover Title Copyright Contents Preface A Last Word: 2013 PART I: Matters of Color 1. The Death of Malcolm X 2. A Conversation at the Shabazz Frosti Kreem Malcolm 4. Malcolm Descending 5. The Devil in the Flesh 6. Allah in Paradise Valley 7. The History of the End of the World 8. Malcolm Redux 9. Harlem 10. The Parable of Hinton Johnson 11. What Mr. Muhammad Told Dr. King 12. Strangers in a Strange Land 13. We Are a World 14. Waiting for Allah 16. Paradise Lost PART II: The Hour of the Knife 17. At the Edge of the Grave 18. A Declaration of Independence 19. A Declaration of War. 20. A Pilgrim's Progress 21. The Child Has Come Home 22. The Return 23. The Far Side of the Rubicon 24. On Standing on the Tops of Trucks During Riots 25. The Second Time Around 26. By Any Means Necessary 27. Coming Apart 28. The Malcolm File 29. The Hour of the Gun PART III. A Detective Story 30. The First Day 31. What the Brothers Did 32. The Second Man 33. The Rites of Winter 34. The Third Man 35. Two Matters for the Police 36. The Ones That Got Away 37. The Judas Factor 38. Trial 39. Thomas 40. T 41. Zeroing In 42. Betty 43. Hayer 44. Butler 45. Johnson 46. Confession 47. Judgment 48. Inquest 49. The Case Is Closed PART IV: Every Goodbye Ain't Gone 50. The Day Malcolm X Died 51. The Malcolm Legend 53. Malcolm and Martin 54. What Became of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam 55. The Malcolm Legacy 56. The Death of Malcolm X PART V: Afterthoughts: 1979 Notes on Sources Index | "Goldman, shiningly eloquent, accurately gauges the impact of Malcolm's life on a whole generation of black people. . . . Malcolm would have, I think, approved of Goldman's biography and that would have been no faint praise."—New York Times Book Review

"Peter Goldman has written a masterful account. . . . An indispensable starting point for anyone interested in contemporary black life."—Washington Post Book World
"Nowhere else in print has such a detailed, objective account of Malcolm X's last tragic years appeared. . . . Demonstrates how Malcolm X's influence in the black community became really significant upon his death."—Library Journal
|Peter Goldman is an author and journalist living in New York City. A former national-affairs writer and senior editor at Newsweek, he is the author of eleven books including, most recently, his first novel, The Last Minstrel Show: A Detective Story.
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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  • Release date: December 11, 2023

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  • ISBN: 9780252047046
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The Death and Life of Malcolm X provides a dramatic portrait of one of the most important black leaders of the twentieth century. Focusing on Malcolm X's rise to prominence and the final year of his life, the book details his rift with the Nation of Islam and its leader, Elijah Muhammad, leading to death threats and eventually assassination at the hands of a death squad. In a new preface for this edition, Peter Goldman reflects on the forty years since the book's first publication and considers new information based on FBI surveillance that has since come to light.| Cover Title Copyright Contents Preface A Last Word: 2013 PART I: Matters of Color 1. The Death of Malcolm X 2. A Conversation at the Shabazz Frosti Kreem Malcolm 4. Malcolm Descending 5. The Devil in the Flesh 6. Allah in Paradise Valley 7. The History of the End of the World 8. Malcolm Redux 9. Harlem 10. The Parable of Hinton Johnson 11. What Mr. Muhammad Told Dr. King 12. Strangers in a Strange Land 13. We Are a World 14. Waiting for Allah 16. Paradise Lost PART II: The Hour of the Knife 17. At the Edge of the Grave 18. A Declaration of Independence 19. A Declaration of War. 20. A Pilgrim's Progress 21. The Child Has Come Home 22. The Return 23. The Far Side of the Rubicon 24. On Standing on the Tops of Trucks During Riots 25. The Second Time Around 26. By Any Means Necessary 27. Coming Apart 28. The Malcolm File 29. The Hour of the Gun PART III. A Detective Story 30. The First Day 31. What the Brothers Did 32. The Second Man 33. The Rites of Winter 34. The Third Man 35. Two Matters for the Police 36. The Ones That Got Away 37. The Judas Factor 38. Trial 39. Thomas 40. T 41. Zeroing In 42. Betty 43. Hayer 44. Butler 45. Johnson 46. Confession 47. Judgment 48. Inquest 49. The Case Is Closed PART IV: Every Goodbye Ain't Gone 50. The Day Malcolm X Died 51. The Malcolm Legend 53. Malcolm and Martin 54. What Became of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam 55. The Malcolm Legacy 56. The Death of Malcolm X PART V: Afterthoughts: 1979 Notes on Sources Index | "Goldman, shiningly eloquent, accurately gauges the impact of Malcolm's life on a whole generation of black people. . . . Malcolm would have, I think, approved of Goldman's biography and that would have been no faint praise."—New York Times Book Review

"Peter Goldman has written a masterful account. . . . An indispensable starting point for anyone interested in contemporary black life."—Washington Post Book World
"Nowhere else in print has such a detailed, objective account of Malcolm X's last tragic years appeared. . . . Demonstrates how Malcolm X's influence in the black community became really significant upon his death."—Library Journal
|Peter Goldman is an author and journalist living in New York City. A former national-affairs writer and senior editor at Newsweek, he is the author of eleven books including, most recently, his first novel, The Last Minstrel Show: A Detective Story.
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Biography & Autobiography Multi-Cultural Sociology Nonfiction