The Messenger
Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad
Publisher: Vintage
Published: January 9, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9780679774068
Subjects: Historical - U.S.; Black Muslims; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Political; Biography/Autobiography; People of Color; Elijah Muhammad,; Biography & Autobiography / People of Color; Biography; 1897-; African Americans
First sentence: As he lay on his deathbed at the beginning of the bitter-cold winter of 1861, eighty-two-year-old Middleton Pool Jr. had no inkling that the lifestyle he had enjoyed for nearly a century was his invisible, emaciated bedfellow.