“Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation” by Robert J. Norrell; St. Martin’s Press (272 pages, $27)Alex Haley was a working freelance writer, not an ideologue. Yet he wrote two of the 20th century’s chief texts of African-American consciousness: “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” and the saga “Roots.” The latter was adapted for a blockbuster TV miniseries watched by a reported 130 million viewers.In [...]
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