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It’s the 4th of July weekend, so what’s my gift to you faithful reader?  A book review of the in the news book about Malcolm X!  Say it with me: USA! USA! USA!

As someone who was influenced/inspired by Malcolm’s life, I had a keen interest in all the stories/rumors/gossip I heard about what was in this ‘definitive’ story on the life of Malcolm X.  The death of the author/historian right before the book’s publish was a nice twist of irony (since as many of you know Malcolm died without seeing his ‘Autobiography’ in finished form.)  But what about the stories about the man himself?  Well…

In my opinion at least, nearly all of those stories were overblown.  That’s not to say there wasn’t several times while reading the book where I said ‘Whoa!’ or ‘Damn!’, but in the context of (any) man’s entire life, the more gossip-y elements…