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Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown

James McBride

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#3054 of 3,809 books · #1079 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (2016).

Kill 'Em 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 "real" James Brown. McBride's travels take him to forgotten corners of Brown's 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 Brown's enduring legacy.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9780679645627
Topics
James BrownSoul music historyRace and American culture

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