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“You won’t leave this hypnotic book without feeling that James Brown is still out there, howling.”—The Boston Globe From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, and Five-Carat Soul 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.  Praise for Kill ’Em and Leave“A tour de force of cultural reportage.”—The Seattle Times “Thoughtful and probing.”—The New York Times Book Review “Masterly . . . powerful.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “McBride provides something lacking in most of the books about James Brown: an intimate feeling for the musician, a veracious if inchoate sense of what it was like to be touched by him. . . . It may be as close [to ‘the real James Brown’] as we’ll ever get.”—David Hajdu, The Nation “A feat of intrepid journalistic fortitude.”—USA Today “[McBride is] 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 “Illuminating . . . engaging.”—The Washington Post “A gorgeously written piece of reportage that gives us glimpses of Brown’s genius and contradictions.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

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I loved James Brown, and it's clear from page one that James McBride also loved James Brown. However, my impression of his book is that there's too much of the author and not enough of the subject. I was keen to read more about JB, but found my reading time being hijacked by the author's personal story when I was hoping to gain enlightening new insights about the Godfather of Soul. The beginning of the book is loaded down with too many attempts at establishing black credibility. While I understood the author's anger over an inaccurate TV show about Brown, I disagree that one needs to be black to write credibly about James Brown. I wasn't wowed by cliches like "growing up in the projects", "eating pork, grits and collards" nor by the name-dropping of formerly tough neighborhoods in New York City like St Albans and Red Hook. Finally, I'm suspicious about the author's claim that all black artists are consumed with deep foreboding fear of whites at every moment of their lives. I'm not sure all black artists would agree, but I am sure that black artists don't have a monopoly on feelings of fear and insecurity. There's altogether too much hyperbole. Yes, James Brown was a phenomenal artist, a true originator, musically brilliant and perhaps even a genius. But was he in fact "the most misrepresented African-American figure of the past 300 years"? Should he be lionized so extravagantly as to claim that he is "perhaps as influential" as Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglas? And did he really "overshadow every single major black star of the 50s, 60s, and 70s" -- including artists McBride lists like Ray Charles, Sly Stone, Stevie Wonder, and the nearly divine Aretha Franklin? Such comparisons are forced and have no place in a serious biography. After the first two chapters I couldn't take it any more, so I skimmed through the rest of the book looking for salient information about the hero. There is some, but not enough to justify the book as a new or important biography. It seems more an entreaty to the reader to believe that in the process of sniffing out the faded trail of James Brown's life, the author has gained some unique insights into the human condition and race relations in America. Whether he has or not, I will leave up to you to judge.

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