"A LIFE OF REINVENTION"

“A Life of Reinvention”

By: Manning Marable Ph.D

 In this masterful work, the late Manning Marable provides in depth detailed information that critiques the content of the “Autobiography of Malcolm X”.  Co-written by both Malcolm X and author Alex Haley, who completed the document after Malcolm’s passing, the autobiography is critiqued by Marable in a manner that challenges many assertions and recounts by Malcolm.

One of the more controversial of his statements is the suggestion of Malcolm displaying homosexual tendencies in his Detroit Red period. Marable documents that Malcolm engaged in a homosexual relationship with a wealthy White man. He asserts that the character “Rudy” was created by Haley and Malcolm as a way of disguising Malcolm’s gay exploits from his deviant past. Marable goes on by exposing Malcolm’s older sisters’ extensive criminal background she shares with her brother, as well as revealing a love affair between Malcolm’s wife Dr. Betty Shabazz and a member of the Nation of Islam.

So as you can see this book is filled with new information and a new perspective on the life that Malcolm X lead and places several pieces into place of Malcolm’s mysterious or misrepresented past. Marable ensures his readers that the book was not written to remove respect or power from Malcolm’s message or purpose.  This was the life’s work of Manning Marable, He died before the book was published and it is an extremely detailed and well organized piece that is welcomed into the literary world as a topic of passionate discussion. So whatever you do and however you get it go out and READ A BOOK!!!!