Vendor
	Fritz Agency Christian Dittus
Original language
English

KILL 'EM AND LEAVE

James McBride

Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

From the critically acclaimed author of The Color of Water and The Good Lord Bird, KILL 'EM AND LEAVE is the never-before-revealed story of The Godfather of Soul, The Hardest Working Man in Show Business: legendary musician James Brown. James McBride delves into the heartbreaking saga of Brown's childhood and destroyed estate, uncovering the hidden history of how Brown's sharecropper family was uprooted by America's largest nuclear bomb-making facility. But this book is more than the story of one larger-than-life man. It is a bracingly honest revelation of the racism and southern culture which both produced and destroyed James Brown, a portrait of the musicians who created the James Brown sound yet were lost to history, and a series of conversations with the friends and protégées whose lives were changed by James Brown. In vivid prose with thorough reporting, James McBride has crafted an incredible story of a man and a legend.

BLACK AND PROUD
Auf der Suche nach James Brown
und der Seele Amerikas
Deutsch von Werner Loecher-Lawrence
[HC btb 08/17; TB btb 05/19]]

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Book Published 2016-04-01 by Spiegel & Grau

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Serbia: Dereta; French: Gallmeister;

NL: Xander; UK: Orion (Non-fiction);

Poland: Czarne (Non-fiction)

One of the Wall Street Journal's "Hottest Spring Nonfiction Books": Mr. McBride's 1996 memoir, The Color of Water, sold more than two million copies. Twenty years later, he returns to nonfiction for the first time with another book exploring race and identitythis time in a biography of the Godfather of Soul, James Brown. The author attempts to untangle inaccurate accounts of the artist's life and a legal battle over his $100 million estate. You cannot understand Brown without understanding that the land that produced him is a land of masks, the author writes. Read more...