Summary
Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for The New York Times, Margo Jefferson, brilliantly unravels the complexities of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time.
Michael Jackson was once universally acclaimed as a song-and-dance man of genius; “Wacko Jacko” is now, more often than not, dismissed for his bizarre race and gender transformations and confounding antics, even as he is commonly reviled for the child molestation charges twice brought against him. Whence the weirdness and allege…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307277657 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0307277658 |
| Author: | Margo Jefferson |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Potter Style |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 2007 |
| Weight: | 157g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 133mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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Critics Review
“Stimulating…. Incisive, intelligent…. Engaging, well written and consistently on target.” —The New York Times
“Jefferson writes…with elegance and attitude….One closes the book hungry to hear her take on other talented but troubled celebrities.” —The Washington Post
“Sparkling….Eloquent and provocative…. Watching Margo Jefferson’s mind at work is as pleasurable and thrilling as seeing Michael Jackson dance.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
“Hers is a dazzling act of sustained vivacity and wisdom. Margo Jefferson brilliantly illuminates both Michael Jackson’s psyche and his art, giving us in the process a fascinating broader picture of American pop culture. Shockingly, Jackson turns out to be as representative as he is singular.” —Ann Douglas, author of Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s and The Feminization of American Culture
“Margo Jefferson, an unfailingly shrewd and eloquent cultural critic, finds in Michael Jackson a paradigm for probing the ambitions, desperations, triumphs, and sacrifices of an artist who stakes everything on a crown. Beyond palace intrigue, she explicates the meaning of show business masks, of racial and social determinants, of spectacle on stage and in the courtroom. She is compelling.” —Gary Giddins, author of Weather Bird and Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams
Margo Jefferson
Margo Jefferson has written for The New York Times since 1993 and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1995. She lives in New York City.
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