A couple of years ago, I bought the “Autobiography of Malcolm X” at a used book store. Almost immediately after, news broke about the journalist Alex Haley having committed fraud, or at the least malpractice by omission in his other works. I decided that the book was maybe all fake anyway, may as well not read it.
It’s been a while now, what is the consensus on this seminal work now? Should I be concerned about the veracity of the transcribed narrative? Have there been more looks into Haley’s work on the “Autobiography” in particular?
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