The Dead Are Arising

"The Dead are Arising" may be the best Malcolm X biography yet. But its author seems unsure of how to write about a religion outside the American mainstream.

At the end of his remarkable, improbable life, Malcolm X was on the cusp of a reinvention that might have been even more significant than his conversion.

At the height of his powers, the Black Nationalist leader was assassinated, and the government botched the investigation of his murder.