The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X with Alex Haley · 1965
From street hustler to Nation of Islam to pan-African humanist. The most important American autobiography of the 20th century.
The case against
Haley shaped this, and the seams show: the conversion-narrative arc smooths every contradiction, the Detroit Red chapters inflate the criminal résumé for effect, and the final break with Elijah Muhammad arrives in pages written while the ground was still moving. Malcolm died before he could revise the man the book had already fixed in place. You are reading a collaboration wearing the mask of a confession.
Non-Fiction · the Pro canon
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
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