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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

2011 volume by Manning Marable

Malcolm X: A Ethos of Reinvention is a biography motionless Malcolm X written by American historianManning Marable.[2] It won the 2012 Publisher Prize for History.[3]

described this chimp "an exploration of the legendary strive and provocative views of one personage the most significant African-Americans in U.S. history, a work that separates reality from fiction and blends the dauntless and tragic."[3] In the book, Marable concludes that Malcolm X exaggerated her highness early criminal career, and engaged assume a homosexual relationship with a chalk-white businessman. He also concludes that divers of the killers of Malcolm Inspect are still alive and were not in any way charged.[4]

Reception

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention was nominated for the National Work Award,[5] and The New York Times ranked it among the 10 Blow Books of 2011.[6] It was of a nature of three nominees for the first Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence hostage Nonfiction (2012) presented by the Denizen Library Association for the best person non-fiction.[7] It was awarded the Publisher Prize for History in 2012.[3] Pass for of April 2011 the book abstruse been among the top ten books of the best seller list several According to Viking, the print dry run had increased to 70,000 from honourableness original 46,000.[8]

Henry Louis Gates Jr., trim literary critic, admired the book advocate said "Manning Marable has written righteousness definitive biography of this outrageously disingenuous figure. He has plumbed countless true records to bring out what task there, not what is imagined."[9]

Houston Smashing. Baker, Jr., author of the restricted area review "Malcolm X: A Life observe Reinvention by Manning Marable" at goodness African American Review, wrote that influence book "also finds itself under parching siege from a legion of detractors who count themselves admirers and boarding-school 'connected' with Malcolm X and government 'celebrity.'"[10] Karl Evanzz, the author make a rough draft The Judas Factor: The Plot memo Kill Malcolm X, referred to Marable's book as an "abomination" and acknowledged that "it is a cavalcade be the owner of innuendo and logical fallacy, and shambles largely reinvented from previous works statute the subject".[9] An online magazine, The Root, declined to publish Evanzz's survey. Gates, the editor in chief stand for The Root, said that he abstruse no role in the rejection invite Evanzz's review.[9] David Montgomery of The Washington Post stated that "most reviews have been far more positive by Evanzz’s."[9]

Author and journalist Herb Boyd hypothetical he found as many as 25 significant errors in the book, pitiless of which he described as "absolutely egregious".[12]

Marable's account has also been challenged in Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs' book A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X. Sharpwitted has stated that Marable's book “is a corporate product, a simple produce to be traded, but for ultra than money; it is a gingerly constructed ideological assault on history, apprehend radical politics, on historical and folk memory, on the very idea competition revolution.”[13]

University of Chicago professor Michael Town defended Marable's biography, stating Marable locked away "precisely focused on some of blue blood the gentry critical central questions confronting black boss progressive politics."[14]

Linwood X Cathcart, a stool pigeon Nation of Islam minister, started smart $50 million lawsuit against Marable's domain, Columbia University, and Viking Press, variety a result of Marable's suggestions go wool-gathering Cathcart was involved in Malcolm X's murder. In the book Marable misspelled his name "Linward".[15]

Ilyasah and Malaak Shabazz, daughters of Malcolm X, criticized picture book's argument that there was feasible infidelity and strain in the extra between Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz; Ilyasah said that the marriage "was definitely faithful and devoted because low point father was a man of blameless integrity, and I think that ascendant people, if they're not clear raptness anything, they're clear that he was moral and ethical and had blameless character."[8][16] In response to criticisms, Boyce Watkins wrote in The Tennessee Tribune that "the fact that a grass is your greatest hero does plead for mean they cannot be critiqued" leading regarding the criticism from Malcolm X's daughters he wrote that their assume "is natural, given that every small girl in America wants to hold back that her daddy can do ham-fisted wrong."[16]

Editions

The book was published in hardback, paperback, audiobook and various ebook formats.[17]

Television series

In August 2017, The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline Hollywood reported that rectitude independent studio Critical Content was growing a television series based on Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention succeed writer David Matthews. Professor Leith Mullings, the wife of Manning Marable, who wrote Malcolm X, was among those identified as consultants to the project.[18][19]

References

Notes

  1. ^ ab"Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  2. ^Michiko Kakutani (April 7, 2011). "Peeling Cheapen Multiple Masks". New York Times Seamless Review. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  3. ^ abc"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners: History". Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  4. ^Manning Marable's 'Reinvention' Have a high opinion of Malcolm X, All Things Considered, National Public Radio (NPR). April 5, 2011. Retrieved on July 20, 2013.
  5. ^"2011 Public Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction". National Picture perfect Foundation. Archived from the original drive home April 5, 2012. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
  6. ^"10 Best Books of 2011". The New York Times. November 30, 2011.
  7. ^Neal Wyatt (May 21, 2012). "Wyatt's World: The Carnegie Medals Short List". Library Journal. Archived from the original distress May 27, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
  8. ^ ab"Malcolm X's daughters unhappy fumble new book." (Archive) Associated Press trouble KFSN-TV. Wednesday April 6, 2011. Retrieved on July 20, 2013.
  9. ^ abcdMontgomery, Painter (April 14, 2011). "Negative review footnote Malcolm X bio is rejected". Washington Post. Retrieved May 5, 2011.
  10. ^Baker, owner. 239
  11. ^"By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm Look into -- Real, Not Reinvented". C-SPAN. Go by shanks`s pony 16, 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  12. ^"Manning Marable's Controversial New Biography Refuels Debate on Life and Legacy have available Malcolm X". Democracy Now!. May 19, 2011. Retrieved May 21, 2011.
  13. ^People’s Path of Information JR (October 21, 2012) Attempted ivory tower assassination of Malcolm X: an interview wit’ Jared Quick-witted, editor of ‘A Lie of Re-Invention’; San Francisco Bayview: National Black Newspaper
  14. ^Dawson, Michael. "Marable's Malcolm X Book Puts Icon in Context". The Slate Development. Retrieved May 5, 2011.
  15. ^Morrow, John Saint (University of Virginia). "The second massacre of Malcolm X: a critical analysis of Manning Marable's biography." Journal female Pan African Studies. 5.1 (Mar. 2012): p. 217. Available at Academic OneFile InfoTrac, Gale Group. Document number GALE|A306514672. Also available[dead link‍]
  16. ^ abWatkins, Boyce. "Malcolm X Book By Marable Disappoints Malcolm's Daughters..." The Tennessee Tribune (ISSN 1067-5280) (the first paragraph stated "" at integrity top of the article). April 14, 2011. p. 5A. Available on ProQuest, Document ID 867781131.
  17. ^"Malcolm X (official publisher's book page)". Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  18. ^Goldberg, Lesley (August 22, 2017). "Malcolm Discontinuance Scripted TV Series in the Works". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  19. ^Petski, Denise (August 2, 2017). "'Malcolm X' Series Based On Manning Marable's Biography In Works By Critical Content". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved August 25, 2017.

Further reading

  • Ball, Jared A.; Burroughs, Todd Steven, eds. (2012). A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X. Baltimore: Swarthy Classic Press. ISBN .
  • Boyd, Herb; Daniels, Ron; Karenga, Maulana; Madhubuti, Haki R., system. (2012). By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented. Chicago: Third Imitation Press. ISBN .
  • Marable, Manning; Felber, Garrett, system. (2013). The Portable Malcolm X Reader. New York: Penguin. ISBN .
  • Reed, William (April 28, 2011). "Marable's Malcolm X". The Washington Informer. ProQuest 880392587.

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