Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown by James McBride #literature ISBN: 9781839022821

ISBN: 9781839022821

a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the Ugly American at his ugliest

It's Ferris Bueller's Day Off with murder

and presidential speechwriter

Cappelens Forlag

Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown by James McBride #literature ISBN: 9781839022821'A formidable free style book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching' Rolling Stone magazine A Guardian best music book of 2016 The music of James Brown was almost a genre in its own right, and he was one of the biggest and most influential cultural figures of the twentieth century. But the singer known as the 'Hardest