RaveThe Los Angeles Times... absorbing and well-written, passionate but painstakingly evenhanded in its explication of a figure who was evolving when he was cut down by assassins at age 39. Most importantly, Marable gives Brother Malcolm the scholarly, almost Shakespearean consideration that\'s long overdue. Like all good biographies, this means getting behind the myths both good and bad ... fills in the blanks with information gleaned from research and government files and extensive interviews with people close to Malcolm ... The resulting portrait is that of a man not distorted but more dynamic than we realized, in evolution at every point in his brief but exceptional public life ... Reinvention\'s most revealing moments are not necessarily dramatic but more day-to-day ... While the book charts Malcolm\'s journey of self-discovery with clear admiration, it also says that it took him a bit too long to come around.
