Prophet of Rage: A Life of Louis Farrakhan and His Nation

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He preaches a dynamic message of African-American empowerment and self-reliance, offering discipline and hope to those most in need. At the same time, he outrages mainstream America with his fiery rhetoric and unrestrained criticism of whites, Jews, and Catholics, whom he blames for the ongoing oppression of blacks. He is the Reverend Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, and his voice shakes the nation.Prophet of Rage penetrates the rhetoric that surrounds this enigmatic figure to reveal his personal ...

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He preaches a dynamic message of African-American empowerment and self-reliance, offering discipline and hope to those most in need. At the same time, he outrages mainstream America with his fiery rhetoric and unrestrained criticism of whites, Jews, and Catholics, whom he blames for the ongoing oppression of blacks. He is the Reverend Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, and his voice shakes the nation.Prophet of Rage penetrates the rhetoric that surrounds this enigmatic figure to reveal his personal story, tracing his life from his birth as Eugene Walcott in the Bronx through his childhood in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, his training as a classical violinist, and his career as a calypso singer. It then follows his remarkable political career, recounting his indoctrination into the Nation of Islam, during which time he took the name "Louis X”; explaining his involvement with the assassination of Malcolm X; and chronicling his rise to power as a powerful orator, political leader, and self-proclaimed prophet.

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Philadelphia Inquirer
Consistently absorbing and surprisinglyl balanced.
Washington Post Book World
A perceptive, balanced, and vividly evocative account...a fine introduction to a compelling American original.
Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Magida, editorial director of Jewish Lights, has interviewed Louis Farrakhan often enough to have grounds to argue that the controversial Nation of Islam leader treats individual Jews with respect. But as he shows in this fair-minded studymore about the NOI than about Farrakhan himselfit is Farrakhan's public statements that matter. Magida first sketches Louis Gene Walcott's youth in Boston's Roxbury and his drifting into black nationalism and the Nation of Islam. He then delves into what he sees as the NOI's self-fabricated religion, arguing that its much-praised discipline was enforced by the paramilitary Fruit of Islam's strong-arm tactics. Magida contends that Farrakhan has glossed over, rather than repudiated, the incendiary language that pointed to Malcolm X's death. When the NOI in 1976 was folded into orthodox Islam, Farrakhan resurrected its nationalist role. While Magida describes the mythologies behind Farrakhan's religion, he stints on analyzing its business efforts and its prominence on American college campuses, and he does not capture the drama of Farrakhan's public appearances. Still, he solidly deconstructs Farrakhan's headline-grabbing rhetoric about Jews and even hints that the initial Jewish "defensive reflex" hindered rapprochement. It is black America's grievances that Farrakhan draws on, and his organizing of the Million Man March gave him new, if still tenuous, stature, the author shows. Magida concludes that Farrakhan's subsequent trip to embrace Middle Eastern dictators squandered much of his momentum. Author tour. (July)
Library Journal
Magida, the editorial director of Jewish Times and former senior editor of the Baltimore Jewish Light, has written the first biography of controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. The book languished at several publishing houses until Farrakhan rose to political prominence with October 1995's Million Man March. Magida obtained highly sought-after interviews with his subject in 1993 and 1994; the subsequent articles, drawn on here, made him a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Magida has no stated agenda but purports to offer an in-depth analysis of the fiery African American leader. While Magida details Farrakhan's public record, heated conflicts with the Jewish community, and political positions that were often contrary to those of such Civil Rights leaders as Martin Luther King Jr., little is revealed of the man behind the image and what drives him. Nevertheless, Magida's biography offers invaluable coverage of a prominent African American. For all biography and African-American studies collections.Michael A. Lutes, Univ. of Notre Dame Lib., Ind
Booknews
Jewish journalist Magida recounts Farrackan's childhood and early musical training, his break with Malcolm X, his role in reestablishing the Nation of Islam under its original creed, his support for Jesse Jackson in 1984, his antisemitic remarks, and the triumphal Million Man March in October 1995. He also places him in the black separatist movement and describes his religion as a blend of Afrocentrism and American pragmatism. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Ray Olson
Magida's subtitle for his book centered on the controversial head of the Nation of Islam misleads a bit. Although Magida does trace Louis Farrakhan's life, his greater subject is the peculiar religious movement that Farrakhan leads and its persistent anti-Semitism and violent rhetoric. In other words, the book is an example of investigative reporting more than of conventional biography. Magida doesn't give us any intimacies about or psychological analyses of Farrakhan; his main themes are the Nation's history of internecine violence and Farrakhan's fixed fondness for inflammatory speech. The violence, which abated after the death of Farrakhan's predecessor Elijah Muhammad, seems attributable to the Nation's originally recruiting its base of male adherents in prison and from the ranks of former convicts (Farrakhan, though, has never been jailed; indeed, he has struck only one person in his entire life). The anti-Semitism Magida traces far back into American history, with blacks in slavery absorbing their Christian owners' attitudes toward Jews. Hardly the last word on either Farrakhan, who finally seems a figure motivated primarily by love of notoriety, or the Nation of Islam, Magida's effort is still good enough as a first take on both.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780465064366
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Publication date: 6/13/1996
  • Edition description: 1st ed
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 6.56 (w) x 9.50 (h) x 1.14 (d)

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