Kill 'em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
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National Book Award winner James McBride goes in search of the real
James Brown after receiving a tip that promises to uncover the man
behind the myth. His surprising journey illuminates not only our
understanding of this immensely troubled, misunderstood, and
complicated soul genius but the ways in which our cultural heritage
has been shaped by Brown's legacy. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF
THE YEAR BY NPR - LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST Kill 'Em
and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown's
rough-and-tumble life, through McBride's lens, is an unsettling
metaphor for American life: the tension between North and South,
black and white, rich and poor. McBride's travels take him to
forgotten corners of Brown's never-before-revealed history: the
country town where Brown's family and thousands of others were
displaced by America's largest nuclear power bomb-making facility;
a South Carolina field where a long-forgotten cousin recounts, in
the dead of night, a fuller history of Brown's sharecropping
childhood, which until now has been a mystery. McBride seeks out
the American expatriate in England who co-created the James Brown
sound, visits the trusted right-hand manager who worked with Brown
for forty-one years, and interviews Brown's most influential
nonmusical creation, his adopted son, the Reverend Al Sharpton. He
describes the stirring visit of Michael Jackson to the Augusta,
Georgia, funeral home where the King of Pop sat up all night with
the body of his musical godfather, spends hours talking with
Brown's first wife, and lays bare the Dickensian legal contest over
James Brown's estate, a fight that has consumed careers; prevented
any money from reaching the poor schoolchildren in Georgia and
South Carolina, as instructed in his will; cost Brown's estate
millions in legal fees; and left James Brown's body to lie for more
than eight years in a gilded coffin in his daughter's yard in South
Carolina. James McBride is one of the most distinctive and electric
literary voices in America today, and part of the pleasure of his
narrative is being in his presence, coming to understand Brown
through McBride's own insights as a black musician with Southern
roots. Kill 'Em and Leave is a song unearthing and celebrating
James Brown's great legacy: the cultural landscape of America
today. Praise for Kill 'Em and Leave Thoughtful and probing . . .
with great warmth, insight and frequent wit.--Rick Moody, The New
York Times Book Review McBride] turns out to also be the biographer
of James Brown we've all been waiting for. . . . McBride's true
subject is race and poverty in a country that doesn't want to hear
about it, unless compelled by a voice that demands to be
heard.--Boris Kachka, New York The definitive look at one of the
greatest, most important entertainers, The Godfather, Da Number One
Soul Brother, Mr. Please, Please Himself--JAMES BROWN.--Spike Lee A
feat of intrepid journalistic fortitude.--USA Today This is an
important book about an important figure in American musical
history and about American culture. . . . You won't leave this
hypnotic book without feeling that James Brown is still out there,
howling.--The Boston Globe Illuminating . . . engaging.--The
Washington Post
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