About the Book
Margo Jefferson’ s "On Michael Jackson" is a lucid and elegant cultural
analysis of the rise and fall of the King of Pop.
An award-winning cultural critic, Jefferson brings an unexpected compassion as well as her sharp intellect
and incomparable insight to Jackson’ s 2005 trial for child molestation, startling us with her erudite illumination of a media-drenched circus that we only thought we understood.
As only she can, Jefferson reads between the lines of Jackson’ s 1998 autobiography as well as published accounts of his childhood, his family, and Motown— where Michael and his brothers
first made the Jackson 5 a household name— leaving us with provocative and perhaps unanswerable questions about Jackson, child stardom, and fame itself.
146 pages.... Author: Jefferson, Margo
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