Article: The Farrakhan Phenomenon: Race, Reaction, and the Paranoid Style in American Politics.

The old folk wisdom that opposites attract would certainly seem to apply to the spate of biographers who have chosen Louis Farrakhan as their subject. Recent book-length studies of the controversial Nation of Islam leader have been penned by the American Jewish Committee's chief legal expert on anti-semitism, a self-proclaimed "liberal-integrationist-feminist writer and sometimes integrationist and feminist activist," a Swedish anthropologist of religion, and the author of a guide to "etiquette in other people's religious ceremonies" To be sure, these are not exactly Islamic fellow travelers or brothers on the block. Some haven't even been able to wrangle a single ...

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