The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad

Author: Karl Evanzz
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Biography: General, Biography: Historical, Political & Military, Biography: Religious & Spiritual, Black & Asian Studies
Age Group: 15+
Book Format: Paperback

Drawn from recently declassified FBI files, and interviews with family members and former apostles, The Messenger renders a daring portrait of one of African-American history's most controversial leaders.

In this explosive biography, investigative journalist Karl Evanzz recounts the multidimensional life of a semiliterate refugee from the Jim Crow South who became the influential founder of the Nation of Islam. Considered the Prophet by his followers and a threat to national security by J. Edgar Hoover, Elijah Muhammad moved four million African Americans to convert to his heterodox version of Islam, and inspired the lives of Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jesse Jackson, and Louis Farrakhan. But his increasingly insatiable hunger for power ultimately led Elijah Muhammad down a path of corruption, ultimately betraying his teachings and his devoted believers by womanizing, fathering thirteen illegitimate children, and abetting in the murders of those who criticized him, not least of whom, his chief disciple, Malcolm X.

About Karl Evanzz
Karl Evanzz is an on-line editor at the Washington Post. He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, MSNBC, and Tony Brown's Black Journal as an authority on the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. He is the author of The Judas Factor: The Plot to Kill Malcolm X. He lives in suburban Washington, D.C.

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SKU BK-9780679774068
Barcode # 9780679774068
Brand Vintage
Artist / Author Karl Evanzz
Shipping Weight 0.4300kg
Shipping Width 0.130m
Shipping Height 0.040m
Shipping Length 0.200m
Assembled Length 20.300m
Assembled Height 3.700m
Assembled Width 13.300m
Type Paperback

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