For nearly twenty years, Manning Marable, a historian at Columbia, labored on what he hoped would be a definitive scholarly work on Malcolm X.

在将近二十年的时间里，哥伦比亚大学的历史学家曼宁·马拉贝一直致力于关于马尔科姆·艾克斯的一部学术著作的创作。他希望那是一部有所定论的著作。

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"It's possible that he will be the reverse Reagan, " says Columbia University historian Manning Marable.

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Manning Marable was awarded the Pulitzer posthumously in the history category for his biography of Malcolm X.

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