The Boston Globe, February 25th, 1990
First published in 1965, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" (Ballantine, $5.95) is the slain civil rights leader's account of his Michigan upbringing, troubled early years, conversion to Islam and rise to national prominence. As his collaborator, Alex Haley, notes in an epilogue, "he was the most electric personality I have ever met, and I still can't quite conceive him dead. It still feels to me as if he has just gone into some next chapter, to be written by historians." "Only a truly gifted writer could have made a triumph of the story of his father's shoddy life," Margaret Manning wrote in h...
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