PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewWhitaker…makes an important intervention. Shaking off the biographical archives, he returns the Malcolm debates back to their true wellspring: the totemic force of his memory in our popular imaginations ... Whitaker provides a jaunty refresher on the ‘Malcolm-Manias’ that swept through America ... Most thrilling is Whitaker’s recovery of the Newsweek reporter Peter Goldman’s excellent investigative work on the assassination ... Insists on seeing its hero as paradigmatically American ... Strangely, the author does not go back to look for the footprints of [Malcom X\'s] journey [to the Middle East, Africa, and Europe] even though it’s clear that the legacy of those trips is formidable.
