Word: malcolms
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...wealthiest, most highly educated, most successful black person in the world, but as long as you are constantly forced to view your wealth, education or success in the context of your socially-constructed blackness, substantial progress has yet to be made against racism and white supremacy. As Malcolm X put it, "You just can't stab a man in the back nine inches, pull the knife out three inches, and call that progress...
...dark and boding--a chronicle of deaths foretold. King no longer holds center stage as he did in the first volume. Challenges to the Georgia preacher's pacifist leadership begin to emerge from Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam and later from its leading apostate, the militant separatist Malcolm X. Malcolm's differences with King were unambiguous and raised legitimate questions, not least of which was the right of self-defense. But the man Branch vividly documents as King's most insidious enemy is FBI director J. Edgar Hoover...
Then there's Charles Spalding, a longtime friend of Kennedy's who told Hersh that J.F.K.'s long-rumored first marriage to Palm Beach socialite Durie Malcolm was a fact. Though stories surfaced in the press in 1961, reporters could find no record of the marriage then. The Kennedy camp denied that it had happened. Malcolm continues to do the same. Spalding told Hersh that the ultra-brief marriage, perhaps an overnight sensation, did indeed take place, in early 1947. At Kennedy's request, says Hersh, Spalding, with the help of a lawyer, removed records of the marriage, presumably from...
...Buckley's personal chapters: his recollection of a year or so at a Jesuit boarding school in England, an awed visit to Lourdes, and a moving account of his nephew Michael Bozell's ordination as a Benedictine priest in France. In a charming tribute to onetime Punch editor Malcolm Muggeridge, he recounts, with dry hilarity, a private audience with the Pope at which a badly briefed John Paul II seemed utterly baffled as to who his guests were. (Buckley nonetheless managed to inform the Pope--and us--that he too has a private chapel at home...
...Hersh suggests that in 1947 Kennedy secretly married a Palm Beach socialite, Durie Malcolm, and never had the marriage annulled. Malcolm, who is still living, denies the allegation. But Kennedy friend Charles Spalding re-confirmed for TIME that the "childish scamp" of a marriage did actually take place...