"The Most Disastrous Decision in Corporate Publishing History"

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I decided to read through Manning Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention so I could learn how The Autobiography of Malcom X was brought to the world: who published it, what the terms were, how the process went, how it initially sold. The Table of Contents did not include what would have been a helpful, discrete chapter on the book instead, the stor…