The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Name: The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Author: Les Payne and Tamara Payne
ISBN: 9781631491672

Les Payne and Tamara Payne

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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Les Payne and Tamara Payne

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The Dead Are ARISING won the National Book Award. 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 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.

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