Kill 'Em And Leave: Searching For James Brown And The American Soul

ôYou wonÆt leave this hypnotic book without feeling that James Brown is still out there, howling.öùThe Boston Globe From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, and Five-Carat Soul Kill ÆEm and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown embodied the contradictions of American life: He was an unsettling symbol of the tensions between North and South, black and white, rich and poor. After receiving a tip that promises to uncover the man behind the myth, James McBride goes in search of the ôrealö James Brown. McBrideÆs travels take him to forgotten corners of BrownÆs never-before-revealed history, illuminating not only our understanding of the immensely troubled, misunderstood, and complicated Godfather of Soul, but the ways in which our cultural heritage has been shaped by BrownÆs enduring legacy. Praise for Kill ÆEm and Leave ôA tour de force of cultural reportage.öùThe Seattle Times ôThoughtful and probing.öùThe New York Times Book Review ôMasterly . . . powerful.öùLos Angeles Review of Books ôMcBride provides something lacking in most of the books about James Brown: an intimate feeling for the musician, a veracious if inchoate sense of what it was like to be touched by him. . . . It may be as close [to æthe real James BrownÆ] as weÆll ever get.öùDavid Hajdu, The Nation ôA feat of intrepid journalistic fortitude.öùUSA Today ô[McBride is] the biographer of James Brown weÆve all been waiting for. . . . McBrideÆs true subject is race and poverty in a country that doesnÆt want to hear about it, unless compelled by a voice that demands to be heard.öùBoris Kachka, New York ôIlluminating . . . engaging.öùThe Washington Post ôA gorgeously written piece of reportage that gives us glimpses of BrownÆs genius and contradictions.öùO: The Oprah Magazine

• | Author: James McBride
• | Publisher: Random House
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 0812983734
• | ISBN-13: 9780812983739