Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography

ISBN-13:	9780809095049
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	11/14/2006
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	382,081
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.55(d)
Age Range:	15 - 18 Years

The age of multitasking needs better narrative history. It must be absolutely factual, immediately accessible, smart, and brilliantly fun. Enter Andrew Helfer, the award-winning graphic-novel editor behind Road to Perdition and The History of Violence, and welcome the launch of a unique line of graphic biographies.If a picture is worth a thousand words, these graphic biographies qualify as tomes. But if you're among the millions who haven't time for another doorstop of a biography, these books are for you.With the thoroughly researched and passionately drawn Malcolm X, Helfer and award-winning artist Randy DuBurke capture Malcolm Little's extraordinary transformation from a black youth beaten down by Jim Crow America into Malcolm X, the charismatic, controversial, and doomed national spokesman for the Nation of Islam.