Alex Haley: The Playboy Interviews - Softcover

Haley, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345383001 ISBN 13: 9780345383006

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1993

Synopsis

A collection of interviews by the Black writer with such celebrities as Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Johnny Carson, Miles Davis, and George Lincoln Rockwell

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

ws Alex Haley as the world-renowned author of the international bestseller ROOTS, and as the writer who collaborated with Malcolm X on his historic autobiography. What many people don't know is that Alex Haley began his professional writing career as a journalist. It was his experience in this arena that earned him the plum assignment as Playboy's first -- and foremost -- interviewer.
Witness Haley's work with the pre-Ali Cassius Clay, in which the posture of the young rebel fell away and a sensitive, intelligent young man emerged. He lured Malcolm X beyond his scathing Black Muslim rhetoric to reveal the agile, perceptive mind of a charismatic leader. With Johnny Carson, Haley revealed the man behind the mask of a charming television raconteur. And, in a devasting interview with George Lincoln Rockwell, the self-appointed fuhrer of the American Nazi Party, Haley deftly exposed the frightening heart and soul of the twisted man and his racist ideology.
A fascinating slice of recent history

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0345383001
• ISBN 13: 9780345383006
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Fisher Murray