Malcolm X. Tutte le verità oltre la leggenda. La biografia «definitiva» del grande leader nero
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Tra le figure che dominano la storia americana del Ventesimo secolo, poche sono così complesse, multiformi e controverse come quella di Malcolm X. Di volta in volta criminale, predicatore, leader politico, è infine diventato, dopo il suo assassinio, un'icona per intere generazioni. La nuova biografia di Malcolm scritta da Manning Marable è un evento. Frutto di anni di indagini su documenti privati e pubblici a lungo coperti dal silenzio e di ostinate ricerche di tutti gli amici e compagni di Malcolm, ma anche di tutti i suoi nemici, molti dei quali non avevano mai accettato di parlare, il libro presenta il ritratto più completo che sia mai stato tracciato di questo grande leader politico. Persino l'Autobiografia, che pure è un documento importantissimo, e che ha formato la base di tutto ciò che pensiamo di sapere su di lui, è in ultima istanza elusiva, essendo il risultato delle reticenze di Malcolm e delle sottili manipolazioni del suo collaboratore, Alex Haley. Capire davvero Malcolm X ci impone di andare più a fondo, per trovare la fonte della sua rabbia così forte e del suo così intenso carisma: dobbiamo saperne di più sulla sua morte, dietro la quale si nasconde una storia di tradimenti e di corruzione, terrificante per le ombre che getta anche sul presente. Introduzione di Alessandro Portelli.
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- Pagine: 615
- Data di uscita: 18-04-2019
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This is a dense, thorough, dour book and I found it tough going most of the time, for a variety of reasons. Malcolm X is a complex and hair-raising subject. When we follow Malcolm through his tortured life, and it was tortured, we find ourselves face to face with some very disturbing views and state Leggi tutto
This book marks the end of the late great Dr. Marable's work while (hopefully?) simultaneously ushering in a fruitful re-examining of Malcolm X's life and place in the historical record. This means, of course, that it isn't quite the definitive work some people are holding it up to be, but would it
This was quite a book, both terms of in length and content and I am sure it is one that will stay with me for some time. I'm not sure what made me pick it up, after having considered, then rejected it several times before. In any case, though, I am glad I did. It is an immersive and extensively rese Leggi tutto
How does a radical become a radical? When you understand Malcolm X’s formative years you might ask yourself how he could NOT be a radical. Marable has taken on the arduous task of trying to tie down and synthesize the life of a man who significantly changed his path, and even his core beliefs, severa Leggi tutto
The late Manning Marable was a lion of the contemporary African-American history community and deservedly so. It's a bit ironic and sad, then, that this work, the crowning achievement of his decades-long career, was published posthumously and that he didn't live to receive the full extent of the acc Leggi tutto
When I was in the military, I read every book I could get my hands on about Malcolm X. I would have loved to have been a helper for Mr. Marable as he gathered information to write this book. It is now the definitive biography of Malcolm. A true masterpiece of biography. Marable even makes a point of Leggi tutto
In my opinion, the author was trying hard to taint Malcolm X's image by trying to "expose" his dark past, eg. claiming he had relations with other men, which his daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz, questioned the accuracy of these accounts. If you want to gain an understanding of this remarkable & honoured m Leggi tutto
Most of my impression of Malcolm X was formed during grade school when I read about him in a 1972 encyclopedia --- which, in general, was that he was one of the two pillars of the Civil Rights Movement --- the other being Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It told of his rough and criminal past, reformed v Leggi tutto
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