Looking for Farrakhan.

Levinsohn, Florence Hamlish.

ISBN 10: 1566631572 / ISBN 13: 9781566631570

Edité par Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 1997

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Octavo in dust jacket, xiv, 305 pp., index.

N° de réf. du vendeur 29249

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Looking for Farrakhan.
• Éditeur: Ivan R. Dee, Chicago
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1566631572
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781566631570
• Reliure: Hardbound
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette

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Synopsis

Looking for Farrakhan In Looking for Farrakhan, Florence Levinsohn has written an unconventional biography. Starting from historical fact, her book is a meditation on the black experience in America that helped transform the young Eugene Walcott into Louis Farrakhan; on the circumstances that brought him to power as leader of the Nation of Islam; on the policies and programs of this curious but imposing organization; and, most of all, on Farrakhan himself. Ms. Levinsohn's thoughtful search for the man behind the myth is the product of a lifetime of reporting and writing on black life in America. With the eye of an accomplished journalist and the diligence of a bloodhound, she tra...

Présentation de l'éditeur

While the racial polarity over the O. J. Simpson trial was powerful and dramatic, there are far deeper and wider differences over Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. It is no exaggeration to say that since the Million Man March, Farrakhan has become perhaps the most respected and admired American black man among his fellow blacks_and the most feared and despised black man by whites in America. In her new book, Looking for Farrakhan, Florence Levinsohn offers a searching biographical portrait of the man behind the myth. Here is a man far more complex, far more dangerous than the one seen in tensecond sound bites on the evening news. While Ms. Levinsohn is unsparing in her descriptions of FarrakhanOs bigotry, she shows that he is a religious zealot who sees himself in a long tradition of black saviors, who sense white hostility everywhere_and is often right. She explores FarrakhanOs impact as an agent of antiSemitism, and suggests that the root beliefs of Farrakhan and the Nation may illuminate some of the tensions now buried in white and black mutual anger. Looking for Farrakhan is a thoughtful, revealing appraisal of perhaps the most enigmatic figure on the American political scene.