PositiveThe Los Angeles TimesArmed with redacted FBI files and rare archival material, the historians challenge standard accounts of the friendship and use their revision to illuminate the moment when the civil rights era, anti-colonial struggles and the baby boomers' coming of age coalesced to reshape the world in ways that still resonate ... Other of the book's claims, however, are more tenuous. At times, the authors engage in pop psychologizing to explain Ali's behavior, and they over-dramatize Malcolm's reaction to Ali's betrayal.
