"The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad" Karl Evanzz (1999)

Considered the „Prophet“ by his followers and threat to national security by J.Edgar Hoover, Elijah Muhammad (né Poole) was a semiliterate refugee of the savage Jim Crown era who became the leader of one of the 20th century´s most controversial movements. In this explosive boigraphy, investigative journalist Karl Evanzz recounts the multidimensional life of a sharecropping preacher´s son from Georgia who emerged as the extraordinarily influential founder o the Nation of Islam.
While his belief that white people were “blue-eyed devils“ went against orthodox Islamic doctrine, Elijah Muhammad moved four million African Americans to converte. His teaching inspired the likes of Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jesse Jackson, and Louis Farrakhan. But then Muhammad´s instatiable hunger for power ultimately led him to betray his own teachings and his devoted believers as he womanized, fathered thirteen illegitimate children, and abetted in the murders of those who critized him, not least of whom his chief disciple, Malcolm X.
Drawing on recently declassified FBI files as well as interviews with some of Elijah Muhammad´s children and former apostles, Karl Evanzz renders an astonishing portrait of a man whose ideologies forever changed the African American expirience.

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Title: The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad
Author: Karl Evanzz
Publisher: Random House, Inc. (NYC)
Year: 1999
Number of pages: 669
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Preface p. XI
Prologue: Undercover p. 3
Brother's Keeper p. 9
Roots p. 32
Paradise Lost p. 52
Lord of the Flies p. 72
Bitter Fruit p. 93
Elijah the Prophet p. 113
Moles in the Mosque p. 133
Kaaballah p. 156
Arabesque p. 178
Compromised p. 203
Black Macbeth p. 228
Sons and Lovers p. 256
Devil's Disciples p. 283
The Pen and the Sword p. 309
Apollo Fires p. 336
And Mercury Falls p. 361
In the Name of Allah p. 379
Keys to the Kingdom p. 397
A Con for a Con p. 418
Epilogue: Virtual Religion p. 433
Afterword p. 442
Appendices 
Reported Aliases of the Messenger and of Wallace D. Fard p. 445
The Scarlet Letter p. 448
Concise Genealogy of Elijah Muhammad p. 452
Locations and Infrastructure of the Nation of Islam, 1958-1959 p. 455
The Muslim Program p. 465
Selected Declassified Government Documents on Elijah Muhammad and Key Figures in the Nation of Islam p. 469
Acknowledgments p. 515
Notes p. 517
Bibliography p. 591
Index p. 637