![]() ![]() ![]() He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. I'm one of hundreds of thousands whose lives were changed for the better." - Spike LeeĪlex Haley is the world-renowned author of Roots, which has sold six million hardcover copies and has been translated into thirty languages. It has given me courage I didn't know I had inside me. "The most important book I'll ever read, it changed the way I thought, it changed the way I acted. Its dead level honesty, its passion, its exalted purpose, will make it stand as a monument to the most painful truth." - The Nation It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X stands as the definitive statement of a movement and a man whose work was never completed but whose message is timeless. Malcolm X is known primarily as a black leader who gave passionate and sometimes incendiary speeches about the so-called Negro and the white devil in. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time. In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. ![]()
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