The prose is not pretentious there is slang and anecdotes of violence, self-hate, and sadness told in plain English. I felt as if Malcolm X was sitting directly across from me at a table, telling his story to me in painstaking detail, reliving his mistakes, his triumphs, and the tragic end that he knows is coming. The book is written in a unique first-person confessional narrative format. Malcolm X told his story to Alex Haley, the renowned author most known for 1976’s number one best seller “ Roots ,” in a series of 50 interviews between 19, the year of Malcolm’s assassination. The fact that it is all laid bare and told so candidly is what makes it stand out from other autobiographies of historical figures. Some of the book’s events seem right out of a weekly action drama on cable or Netflix, but the trials and tribulations that Malcolm X faced in his life were very much real. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X is a brilliant, sometimes chilling first-person account of one of the most influential figures of the American civil rights movement.
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