1 Day When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on Alex Haley's "the Autobiography" - Softcover

James Baldwin's screenplay based on Alex Haley's now classic The Autobiography Of Malcolm X makes immediate and terrfyingly real the stunning events that gave birth to a forceful, determined man . . . and created the atmosphere of hate that ultimately murdered him.  Juxtaposing eloquence and violence, the highest of human ideals with the basest of human violence, this rare screenplay recreates Malcolm X as a symbol for his times . . . and as a flesh and blood black man who feels, loves, hates, and forgives through a life torn by pain, healed by faith, and finally ended by the bullets from a black brother's gun.

James Baldwin was born in 1924 and educated in New York. He is the author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction.
From the Trade Paperback edition.