The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X - Les Payne & Tamara Payne

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

By Les Payne & Tamara Payne

  • Release Date: 2020-10-20
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4
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From 141 Ratings

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An epic, award-winning biography of Malcolm X that draws on hundreds of hours of personal interviews and rewrites much of the known narrative.
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to create an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this historic, National Book Award–winning biography, which interweaves previously unknown details of Malcolm X’s life—from harrowing Depression-era vignettes to a moment-by-moment retelling of the 1965 assassination—into an extraordinary account that contextualizes Malcolm X’s life against the wider currents of American history. Bookended by essays from Tamara Payne, Payne’s daughter and primary researcher, who heroically completed the biography after her father’s death in 2018, The Dead Are Arising affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle.

Reviews

  • Excellent Book

    5
    By CTConscious
    A must read for those who want to understand the backstory of Brother Malcolm. Very insightful.
  • A comprehensive view of the life and times of Malcolm X

    5
    By Seelosen
    I loved this book, especially the way it is a great supplemental text to the Autobiography. Parts that weren’t included in Haley’s text show up here, giving us more insight into who Malcolm really was. I had a greater sense of his wit, more than anything else. Plus, one gets a more comprehensive view of his story in the context of his time.
  • The dead are arising

    5
    By All done blue
    Excellent book. I hope this book gets on lots of required reading lists for American history courses.

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