The Farrakhan Phenomenon: Race, Reaction, and the Paranoid Style in American Politics.

Washington Monthly | September 1, 1997| | Copyright

The old folk wisdom that opposites attract would certainly seem to apply to the spate of biographers who have chosen Louis Farrakhan as their subject. Recent book-length studies of the controversial Nation of Islam leader have been penned by the American Jewish Committee's chief legal expert on anti-semitism, a self-proclaimed "liberal-integrationist-feminist writer and sometimes integrationist and feminist activist," a Swedish anthropologist of religion, and the author of a guide to "etiquette in other people's religious ceremonies" To be sure, these are not exactly ...

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