Myth Busting Malcolm X

Well, here's a real shocker, X's autobiography does not stand up to the truth!

That “autobiography,” as David Remnick makes clear in a review in The New Yorker, consisted in large part of Malcolm Little making up tall tales about his life while being egged on by the sensationalist writer Alex Haley, whose later book Roots would also turn out to be mostly fictitious (and partly plagiarized). Haley, says Marable, wanted to write “a potboiler that would sell,” facts be damned.

Another author has a new book out which puts reality into the Gandhi story too.

Two more added to the future reading list:

Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention

Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India