The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (986 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1592403905 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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. JAMES SULLIVAN was a pop culture critic at the San Francisco Chronicle for seven years, and has also written for The Boston Globe, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and Book
All rights reserved. Because of rising tensions among African-Americans in the city, Mayor Kevin White's first impulse was to cancel Brown's concert. Yet realizing that ticket holders might be just as angry over a canceled concert as they might be impassioned to riot by a raucous one, he and Brown worked out a deal to allow the concert to go on. Once on stage, Brown opened with his by-then famous Please, Please, Please, which became that night a rallying cry for his audience to respect themselves and others, just as King had done. Sullivan only briefly traces Brown's rise and fall as a musician from his early days in Edgefield, S.C., to his death in Augusta, Ga., as he recovers a facet of James Brown as a political and racial leader. At the center of the book is Brown's concert at the Boston Garden on the night follow
Sultana Almansour said What You Always Wanted To Know About James Brown. One of the advantages of traveling around the world on a continuous basis is that sooner or lter one meets many of thoe persons predestined for global greatness. Such was my first and the many subsequent meetings with James Brown aka " The Godfather of Soul ! " My first meting with him was occasioned by the most dominant record and musical promoter in the San Francisco By Area, Raymond Dobard. Mr. Dobard was one of my first legal business clients after graduating from the University School of Law at Berkeley in the early 60's. In between practicing law, moderating a popular radio and television show and becoming a found. James Brown: The Living Legend Lives, and Will Never Die! At last it has been told: the improbable rise from rags to riches of the Godfather of Soul aka Soul Brother #1, Mr. James Brown.Thanks to his proven investigative, journalistic skills, accomplished author, James Sullivan, resurrected the soul of James Brown in his latest book "The Hardest Working Man--How James Brown Saved the Soul of America". In the process, Sullivan assured us that Brown still lives, and more importantly, will never die!While tracing the daunting stubborn hurdles, James Brown had to mount early in his life just to avoid starvation. The author traces and shares how James gradually constructed an inner. Love, Power, Peace Jeffrey Rubard James Brown was one of the iconic 20th century Americans -- and he's usually left as that, an image. Journalist James Sullivan peers behind it in *The Hardest Working Man*, the story of how a legendary 1968 concert by JB in Boston may have averted a riot. In 1966 and 1967, oppressed African-Americans vented their rage by burning ghettoes in Watts, Newark and Detroit. The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968 promised another round of destruction and before long Washington, D.C. was in flames; in Boston, a city with high racial tensions, the regnant Brown was scheduled to perform at Boston Garden -- the questi
Through the prism of this one concert, Sullivan also charts Brown's incredible rise from poverty to self-made millionaire, his enormous influence on popular music, and his complex relationship with the Civil Rights movement, making The Hardest Working Man both a tribute to an unforgettable concert and a rousing biography of a revolutionary musician.. Yet few have addressed his contribution in the darkest hour of the Civil Rights movement. Telling for the first time the story of his historic Boston Garden concert the day after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, The Hardest Working Man captures the magnificent achievements that made Brown an icon of American popular culture. Sullivan details the charged atmosphere in Boston, Brown's fight against