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1.0 out of 5 stars
Amazingly Bad, Feb 15 2006
By Nada O'Neal "noneal" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Malcolm X (Paperback)
This volume contains but three short speeches by Malcolm X, all of which are available elsewhere. These essays were then dubiously re-edited and reorganized by Archie Epps in some sort of misguided attempt to refine them.
The first 60% of the book, moreover, is taken up by Epps' own scattered, incoherent essays, which are astonishingly bad. Epps had the idea of comparing Malcolm X (a person) to "Shakespeare's plays" (not a person), which is an incoherent idea in itself. His method of scattering random Shakespeare quotes throughout a thin account of Malcolm X's life makes this bad idea, weak in conception, even worse in execution.
If you're interested in reading Malcolm X's speeches, which you should be, get ANY other anthology or collection in print. Anything would be better than this.