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Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative
journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to
create an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would
separate fact from fiction. The result is this historic, National
Book Award-winning biography, which interweaves previously unknown
details of Malcolm X's life-from harrowing Depression-era vignettes
to a moment-by-moment retelling of the 1965 assassination-into an
extraordinary account that contextualizes Malcolm X's life against
the wider currents of American history. Bookended by essays from
Tamara Payne, Payne's daughter and primary researcher, who
heroically completed the biography after her father's death in
2018, The Dead Are Arising affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to
the African American freedom struggle.
The classical result for uniqueness in elasticity theory is due to
Kirchhoff. It states that the standard mixed boundary value problem
for a homogeneous isotropic linear elastic material in equilibrium
and occupying a bounded three-dimensional region of space possesses
at most one solution in the classical sense, provided the Lame and
shear moduli, A and J1 respectively, obey the inequalities (3 A + 2
J1) > 0 and J1>O. In linear elastodynamics the analogous
result, due to Neumann, is that the initial-mixed boundary value
problem possesses at most one solution provided the elastic moduli
satisfy the same set of inequalities as in Kirchhoffs theorem. Most
standard textbooks on the linear theory of elasticity mention only
these two classical criteria for uniqueness and neglect altogether
the abundant literature which has appeared since the original
publications of Kirchhoff. To remedy this deficiency it seems
appropriate to attempt a coherent description ofthe various
contributions made to the study of uniqueness in elasticity theory
in the hope that such an exposition will provide a convenient
access to the literature while at the same time indicating what
progress has been made and what problems still await solution.
Naturally, the continuing announcement of new results thwarts any
attempt to provide a complete assessment. Apart from linear
elasticity theory itself, there are several other areas where
elastic uniqueness is significant.
**WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY** **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL
BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)** Finalist, LA Times Book Prize New Books
to Watch Out for in October, New York Times Best New Books to Read
in October, TIME Best Books of Fall 2020, O, the Oprah Magazine A
landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most
compelling figures, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les
Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative
journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to
interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X -
including siblings, classmates, friends, cellmates, FBI moles and
cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was
ambitious: to transform what would become hundreds of hours of
interviews into a portrait that would separate fact from fiction.
The result is this magisterial work that conjures a
never-before-seen world of its protagonist, whose title is inspired
by a phrase Malcolm X used when he saw his followers stir with
purpose to overcome the obstacles of racism. Setting his life not
only within the political struggles of his day but also against the
larger backdrop of American history, this remarkable masterpiece
traces his path from street criminal to devoted moralist and
revolutionary. An author who saw Malcolm X speak and could not
stand the phrase 'we may never know', Payne writes cinematically
from start to finish and delivers extraordinary revelations - from
a hair-raising scene of Malcolm's clandestine meeting with the KKK,
to a minute-by-minute account of his murder in Harlem in 1965, in
which he makes the case for the complicity of the American
government. Introduced by Payne's daughter and primary researcher,
Tamara Payne, who, following her father's death, heroically
completed the biography, The Dead Are Arising is a penetrating and
riveting work that affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the
African American freedom struggle and the story of the twentieth
century.
**WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY** **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL
BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)** Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown
Award Finalist, LA Times Book Prize A landmark biography of one of
the twentieth century's most compelling figures, rewriting much of
the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning
investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly
thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had
actually known Malcolm X - including siblings, classmates, friends,
cellmates, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the
world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become
hundreds of hours of interviews into a portrait that would separate
fact from fiction. The result is this magisterial work that
conjures a never-before-seen world of its protagonist, whose title
is inspired by a phrase Malcolm X used when he saw his followers
stir with purpose to overcome the obstacles of racism. Setting his
life not only within the political struggles of his day but also
against the larger backdrop of American history, this remarkable
masterpiece traces his path from street criminal to devoted
moralist and revolutionary. An author who saw Malcolm X speak and
could not stand the phrase 'we may never know', Payne writes
cinematically from start to finish and delivers extraordinary
revelations - from a hair-raising scene of Malcolm's clandestine
meeting with the KKK, to a minute-by-minute account of his murder
in Harlem in 1965, in which he makes the case for the complicity of
the American government. Introduced by Payne's daughter and primary
researcher, Tamara Payne, who, following her father's death,
heroically completed the biography, The Dead Are Arising is a
penetrating and riveting work that affirms the centrality of
Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle and the story of
the twentieth century.
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