The Playboy interviews
By: Alex Haley ; edited with an introduction by Murray Fisher.
Contributors: Fisher, Murray, 1932-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ballantine
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 503
Subjects: Haley, Alex -- Interviews.; African Americans -- Interviews.; Celebrities -- United States -- Interviews.; Biography -- 20th century.; United States -- Biography.
Genres: Interviews.; Biography.
Other titles: Playboy (Chicago, Ill.)
Description: Everyone knows 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, an extraordinarily candid collection of celebrity interviews and personal reminiscences, ALEX HALEY: THE PLAYBOY INTERVIEWS anthologizes for the first time a gifted writer's finest work at its controversial and informative best.
Table of contents: title: Miles Davis; title: Malcolm X; title: Cassius Clay; title: Martin Luther King ,Jr.; title: Melvin Belli; title: George Lincoln Rockwell; title: Sammy Davis, Jr.; title: Johnny Carson; title: Jim Brown; title: Alex Haley; title: Quincy Jones.