Too Fast
Thomas Powers: Malcolm X, 25 August 2011
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
by Manning Marable.
Allen Lane, 592 pp., £30, April 2011,978 0 7139 9895 5 Show More
by Manning Marable.
Allen Lane, 592 pp., £30, April 2011,
“... near the corner of 135th Street and Seventh Avenue. He had recently been fired as fourth cook on a Boston-to-Washington dining car, and had yet to learn to want anything more than a good time. On any morning that summer, Little might have brushed shoulders with the slender, watchful Ralph Ellison, passing through the Harlem YMCA, where Little roomed for a time ... ”