The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad
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This well-documented biography by Karl Evanzz of The Washington Post shows how a poor, Georgia-born mulatto preacher and laborman named Elijah Poole, who moved to Detroit in the 1930s to escape the brutality of the South, reinvented himself as the leader of the controversial Nation of Islam. Evanzz sifts through years of rumors and myths to uncover a proud and politically shrewd demagogue whose frail, asthma-prone body contrasted his fiery antiwhite rhetoric and proclamations of black self-reliance. "To millions of African Americans," Evanzz writes, "Elijah Muhammad was not so much a prophet as a self-schooled psychoanalyst who, like the highly celebrated Sigmund Freud, advanced theories about the nature and role of religion and race in mental dysfunction."
Painstaking research reveals how Muhammad synthesized the philosophies of Marcus Garvey and Booker T. Washington, as well as updating tenets of Freemasonry and the Moorish Science Temple to create the Nation's dogma. Evanzz also recounts Muhammad's imprisonment for draft dodging, one of many run-ins with law enforcement, and his efforts to build schools for the children of his followers. Among the biographical details uncovered with the help of recently declassified FBI files is the identity of Muhammad's greatest teacher, the mysterious W.D. Fard, as well as confirmation of the many children Muhammad fathered out of wedlock. The FBI files also add insight into the treachery, distrust, and violence that gripped the Nation after the 1965 assassination of Muhammad's former second-in-command, Malcolm X. By and large, Evanzz presents a fair, scholarly account of one of the 20th century's most infamous and influential Afro-American figures. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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As a followup to his acclaimed The Judas Factor: The Plot to Kill Malcolm X, Evanzz recounts the "incredible and multidimensional" life of Elijah Muhammad, cofounder of the Nation of Islam. Evanzz begins by meticulously reviewing the history of Muhammad's family during slavery and Reconstruction, leading up to his birth in Georgia in 1897, during the brutal Jim Crow era, which shaped his belief that whites are inherently evil. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with Muhammad's family, former associates and rivals, Evanzz reveals a determined, wily and resourceful figure who got rich from his schemes, ruled his followers by intimidation and fathered an enormous number of illegitimate children. He also chronicles Muhammad's powerful influence on key players of the civil rights movement, such as Dr. King, Muhammad Ali, Jesse Jackson and the Black Panthers. Fresh access to FBI files provides several surprises about the NOI's rocky start, the pro-Axis orientation of its leaders during WWII and the government's extensive surveillance and harassment of its followers. The book also includes one of the most complete accounts to date of the final, bitter confrontation between Muhammad and his chief disciple, Malcolm X, arguing that the FBI's COINTELPRO campaign forced the rift between the pair, which resulted in Malcolm's grisly Harlem assassination and the disintegration of the Nation of Islam into a fractured "Tower of Babble." Although Evanzz's first-rate analysis may generate dispute among the NOI's thousands of faithful followers, it is a fascinating, long overdue study of one of the most intriguing personalities of the 20th century. (Dec.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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As he lay on his deathbed at the beginning of the bitter-cold winter of 1861, eighty-two-year-old Middleton Pool Jr. had no inkling that the lifestyle he had enjoyed for nearly a century was his invisible, emaciated bedfellow. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Welcome Insight into the NOI,
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In a nutshell the long awaited biography of such a controversial figure was well done and I highly recommend this book for not only people who want to be enlightened but also for the naysayers who follow these type of organizations blindly. I can only hope that this book wakes up folks who follow religious (supposedly) doctrines blindly. The NOI and for that matter cults such as Jim Jones, Jim Baker and countless other factions continue to hoodwink and bamboole (using Malcolm X's words) folks to no extreme. One can only think of if Malcolm X and Martin Luther King weren't assassinated and how the African-American community would be different. And to think that Fard was a White guy. Incredible! I've always been cynical towards these types of organizations and this only reaffirms my dismay.
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A Very Good Read...,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad (Gebundene Ausgabe)
A Very Good Read...Karl Evanzz has done a painstaking work which has born good fruit. I think that to date it is the best work put forth on Elijah Muhummand thus far. For those who have given there lives to the NOI, Farrakahn, or even the Moorrish American Belief systems , it will be an extremely large pill to take! None the less, it remains a neccessary pill to take. Evanzz would have to done an even better job had his presentation been less "editorialized" in some of the last chapters. Those who could presently use it the most will surely dismiss it out of hand, offered by a "Hypocrite". Anyway, I fould the book to be an agrreeable read including much of the story lines I was only able to get from the remaining participants...and the few old guys that were still alive in the late 80's from the UNIA days long past. I recommend this book but please do not fail to follow up your reading to the primary sources (FBI FILES, etc)). Reading his other work "Judas Factor", and ,and the work by Zack Condo, "Conspiracy to Destroy Malcomlm X", should help paint a slightly more coherent picture. Lastly, Evanzz does not give a dispationate analysis (any at all) of the benefits Africans in American derived from the NOI. Let us not FORGET that the popular History of America, the History of Africans in America, and US's relationship with us is, is indeded a MADE UP--Perverted--Self Serving--Farce that has been used to gain and maintain Power over African People.
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad (Gebundene Ausgabe)
I enjoyed this book a great deal. I was raised in the Boston Mosque, so some of it was hard to read about. Who can say if it's all true, but I tell you Mr. Evanzz has hit very close to home. Although we may not like some of the things that the Messenger did, he did opened the door to Islam in America. And many of us thank him for that. Also the ideals of the Nation kept many Black families from becoming statics. He was not able to relocate us phsically, so he did the next best thing in refocusing our minds on your own development and self reliance and off the White man. Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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