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National Book Award winner James McBride goes in search of the real James Brown and his surprising journey illuminates the ways in which our cultural heritage has been shaped by Brown s legacy. A product of the complicated history of the American South, James Brown was a cultural shape-shifter who arguably had the greatest influence of any artist on American popular music. Brown was long a figure of fascination for James McBride, a noted professional musician as well as a writer. When he received a tip that promised to uncover the man behind the myth, McBride set off to follow a trail that revealed the personal, musical, and societal influences that created this immensely troubled, misunderstood, and complicated soul genius. "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 reveals, 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 reveals 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 reveals the Dickensian legal contest over James Brown s valuable estate, a fight that has destroyed careers, cheated children out of their educations, cost Brown s estate millions in legal fees, sent Brown s trusted accountant, David Cannon, to jail for a crime for which he was not convicted, and has left James Brown s body to lie for more than eight years in a gilded coffin on his daughter s front lawn in South Carolina. James McBride is one of the most distinctive and electric literary voices in America today, andpart 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 that unearths and celebrates James Brown s great legacy: the cultural landscape of America today. Praise for "Kill Em and Leave" 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 "Please, please, please" Can anybody tell us who and what was "James Brown"? At last, the real deal: James McBride on James Brown is the matchup we ve been waiting for, a musician who came up hard in Brooklyn with JB hooks lodged in his brain, a monster ear for the truth, and the chops to write it. This is no celeb bio but a compelling personal quest so very timely, angry, hilarious, and as irresistible as any James Brown beat. Gerri Hirshey, author of "Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music" An unconventional and fascinating portrait of Soul Brother No. 1 and the significance of his rise and fall in American culture. " Kirkus Reviews" "From the Hardcover edition.""

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