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The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As told to Alex Haley) Hardcover – September 29, 1992

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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. 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.
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. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand America.

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“Malcolm X’s autobiography seemed to offer something different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged through sheer force of will.”—Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father

“A great book . . . Its dead level honesty, its passion, its exalted purpose, will make it stand as a monument to the most painful truth.”
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“The most important book I’ll ever read, it changed the way I thought, it changed the way I acted. It has given me courage I didn’t know I had inside me. I’m one of hundreds of thousands whose lives were changed for the better.”
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This book is such a classic. Reading it is almost like a rite of passage for young African AMericans.
I didn't discover it until I was in college (and an elderly female white professor of black lit introduced it to me). Wow! I'm glad she did. But my son read it at age 12. How much better that he's reading Malcolm's
moving story now --rather than late like I did. I believe it will truly affect his life in a very major way.
If I were rich, I'd donate thousands of these books to schools and young folks nationwide.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ballantine Books; Reissue edition (September 29, 1992)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 528 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0345379756
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0345379757
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1120L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.95 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.44 x 1.64 x 9.56 inches
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2024
    This book taught me a lot about the history of the Black Americans and the history of race in the USA. It gave me a clearer picture of the complex person who was Malcolm X. He seems to epitomize the plight of far too many African Americans. I wish that all Americans read this as part of their education. Well written.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2025
    In 2025, what has changed? Amazing read. Best book I’ve read in my life. This should be required reading in every academic institution.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2025
    Loved it
  • Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2023
    I was born in 1989! I was introduced to the Nation of Islam first and then I started to learn more about Malcolm!
    I’ve watched many YouTube videos on Malcolm and I concluded that Malcolm was a TRUE SOLDIER for his people!
    I always admire the amount of information that I knew of Malcolm!

    But this book was the equivalent of a sit down and an extensive conversation with Malcolm myself!

    Disregarding the stipulations, depictions, narratives and other personal & media driven opinions, I now believe that I truly understand who Malcolm was!
    I’m thankful that I had the opportunity to digest his thoughts and the selected details of his journey within this well structured book!

    Alex did a phenomenal job with helping Malcolm put together this book!

    And personally, I think that a person should only be allowed to exert an opinion on Malcolm only after reading this book!

    Thank you Malcolm for your contribution to mankind as we know It. (((salute)))
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2021
    If you had asked me what I thought about Malcolm X before reading the Autobiography, I would have told you he was the militant civil rights leader to contrast the nonviolence of Martin Luther King Jr. But that explanation, which basically encompassed my general knowledge from high school history classes, is such a massive disservice in fully conveying the complexity of a highly fascinating, admirable, and simultaneously tragic human being.

    The narration begins with hooded Ku Klux Klan members breaking into his parents’ Nebraska home in the 1920s. Once again, when Malcolm is a child, a white supremacist group burns his new home in Michigan down. In the late 1930s, he and his siblings were separated and government officials instituted their mother at a state hospital. In school, despite Malcolm’s incredible intelligence, his white teachers would call his law ambitions unrealistic and demonstrated the lengths to which the United States suppressed the talents of black people. This is a driven and resilient man who would become one of the most important figures of the 20th century despite severe traumas and a cruel, unjust world.

    Witnessing his journey is tragic because he could have gone even further. His assassination is a testament to the strength of his wisdom and fame because those threatened by him and other civil rights leader were nothing but hateful embodiments of a backward time. It is common to hear people talk about Malcolm X as a controversial figure because while he was outwardly hateful of white people for a long time, he talks about a lot of uncomfortable ideas. It is a shame we did not get to see him explore them in greater depth.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2024
    Excellent autobiography. Just wow! I learned so much about Malcom X. I was devastated in finding out that the person that assassinated him was also in the Nation of Islam. A brotha if you will. My heart broke for his wife and children. Malcom did so much for Elijah Muhammad only for him to betray him. There's a saying that goes: It be your own kind sometimes. Ain't that the truth!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2024
    The Malcolm Little presented in this autobiography written by the novelist Alex Haley -- who would go on to write "Roots," one of the seminal reads of my college Freshman year -- is extremely unlikable. Yes, we see how he turned into a hustler, crook, and drug addict in Harlem; it was due to his hardscrabble childhood w/ too many children for an overworked mother to feed and raise. The poor woman was institutionalized b/c she was trying to raise eight Black children on her own after their father was murdered! It was so hard to read about his tough childhood in Michigan before his sister took him in when he should have been in high school. Instead, he started working as a shoe-shine boy in a dance club, which changed his life, to say the least.
    How did Malcolm Little, the "thug," (to use today's vernacular) end up as the religious-firebrand leader Malcolm X? Meeting Allah while in prison, short and simple. The Rev. Elijah Muhammed, the leader of the Nation of Islam, answered Malcolm's letter from prison. Thus began Malcolm's devotion to Mr. Muhammed and his church. Let Malcolm explain it: "Awareness came surging up in me--how deeply the religion of Islam had reached down into the mud to lift me up, to save me from what I inevitably would have been: a dead criminal in a grave, or, if still alive, a flint-hard, bitter, thirty-seven-year-old convict in some penitentiary, or insane asylum...But Allah had blessed me to lift myself up from the muck and the mire of this rotting world." p. 330.
    Mr. Muhammed eventually turned against Malcolm when Malcolm learned Mr. Muhammed's dirty secret. After his brain-bursting trip to Mecca and being introduced to "true" Islam (in Malcolm's words), Malcolm was more on fire for Allah than ever and was an in-demand speaker all over the United States. However, this made him a marked man by the Nation of Islam. He was assassinated not long thereafter.
    Who knows what greater heights Malcolm X might have achieved? How many more people he would have introduced to the peacefulness and simplicity of a life dedicated to Allah?
    This was an uncomfortable read; I had to put it down for days at a time, b/c honestly, Malcolm just wasn't always likable: his extreme hatred of white people - while understandable - got upsetting. I am proud that Malcolm X is finally represented in Statuary Hall at the US Capitol for the State of Nebraska, but I probably wouldn't have liked him personally. 4 stars for an important, long-delayed read of his Autobiography.
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  • Vibe Sustentável
    5.0 out of 5 stars Liberdade de pensamento por qualquer meio necessário.
    Reviewed in Brazil on January 19, 2024
    Livro denso. Mais de 500 páginas. Em Inglês. Mas vale cada palavra.
  • Deniz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Eine Lebensreise in Worten: Die Autobiographie von Malcolm X
    Reviewed in Germany on November 16, 2023
    Die Autobiographie von Malcolm X, mit einem neuen Vorwort von Attallah Shabazz, ist ein kraftvolles Zeugnis einer außergewöhnlichen Lebensreise. Das Buch, das in Zusammenarbeit mit Alex Haley entstand, erzählt die bewegende Geschichte eines Mannes, der vom Verbrecher zum Bürgerrechtsaktivisten wurde.

    Die ehrlichen und schonungslosen Erzählungen von Malcolm X bieten nicht nur Einblicke in seine persönlichen Herausforderungen und Triumphe, sondern werfen auch ein Licht auf die politische und soziale Landschaft seiner Zeit. Die scharfsinnige Analyse von Rassismus, Ungerechtigkeit und persönlichem Wachstum macht dieses Buch zu einem zeitlosen Klassiker.

    Die Einführung von Attallah Shabazz verleiht dem Werk zusätzliche Tiefe, indem sie einen modernen Blick auf die Bedeutung von Malcolm X und sein Vermächtnis wirft. Shabazz, als Tochter von Malcolm X, bringt eine persönliche Perspektive ein, die das Erbe ihres Vaters weiterführt.

    Die Autobiographie fesselt den Leser von Anfang bis Ende. Malcolm Xs lebendige Sprache, sein Humor und seine Weisheit ziehen den Leser in seine Welt und lassen ihn an den Höhen und Tiefen seines Lebens teilhaben. Der Leser erlebt nicht nur die Transformation des Mannes Malcolm Little zu Malcolm X, sondern auch die Transformation einer Ära der Bürgerrechtsbewegung.

    Dieses Buch ist nicht nur eine faszinierende Lebensgeschichte, sondern auch ein kraftvolles Manifest für persönliche Freiheit, soziale Gerechtigkeit und den unerschütterlichen Glauben an Veränderung. Die Autobiographie von Malcolm X bleibt ein bedeutendes Werk, das die Leser dazu inspiriert, über Vorurteile und Ungerechtigkeiten nachzudenken und sich für eine bessere Welt einzusetzen.
  • David
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente libro
    Reviewed in Mexico on January 9, 2021
    Es la mejor opción para quien puede leerlo en Inglés. Es barato, es un libro increíble, no es una versión hecha para coleccionarse pero la calidad es buena, la verdad es dinero bien gastado.

    En cuanto al contenido del libro. La historia de malcolm es impactante, y leerlo de sus propias palabras es aún más revelador y contundente. Me alegro haberlo leído en su idioma original.
  • Mohammed Jawad Ali
    5.0 out of 5 stars His message and work lives on!
    Reviewed in India on March 23, 2023
    One of the finest books on one of the greatest figures of the 20th century, MalcomX. This book is a must read for every person of colour and every minority who are discriminated at the hands of the powerful, for the people who are lost and do not know their cause, for people who continue to accept brutality without doing something to defend themself. It was a an important literary work of the last century and it rings much more significance in this century where black people are still fighting for their right towards equality and peace. Malcom X, was good Human being and a thoughtful leader who accepted his shortcomings and corrected them along the way. He was assasinated five decades ago but his message and work lives on in the hearts of millions of black people and other people of colour all over the world.
  • MOHAMMED RAFIQ
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good book to Spend time with............
    Reviewed in Saudi Arabia on December 25, 2021
    Awsome book to read with the bio graphies. Good book to spend time with..............