What was the title of Mac West's 1959 autobiography?
Mae West she released an autobiography, "Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It", which became a best seller and was reprinted with a new chapter in 1970. West guest-starred on television, including "The Dean Martin Show" in 1959 and "The Red Skelton Show" in 1960, to promote her autobiography, and a lengthy interview on "Person to Person" with Charles Collingwood, which was censored by CBS in 1959, and never aired. CBS executives felt members of the television audience were not ready to see a nude marble statue of West, which rested on her piano. In 1964, she made a guest appearance on
The Autobiography of Malcolm X his authorial agency when the "Autobiography"s "fractured construction", caused by Malcolm X's rift with Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, "overturned the design" of the manuscript and created a narrative crisis. In the "Autobiography"s epilogue, Haley describes the incident: I sent Malcolm X some rough chapters to read. I was appalled when they were soon returned, red-inked in many places where he had told of his almost father-and-son relationship with Elijah Muhammad. Telephoning Malcolm X, I reminded him of his previous decisions, and I stressed that if those chapters contained such telegraphing to readers of what was to lie