Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Br own and the American Soul by James McBride
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\nKill &rsquo\;Em and Leave \;is more than a book about J ames Brown. Brown&rsquo\;s rough-and-tumble life\, through McBride&rsquo\; s lens\, is an unsettling metaphor for American life: the tension between North and South\, black and white\, rich and poor. McBride&rsquo\;s travel s take him to forgotten corners of Brown&rsquo\;s never-before-revealed hi story: the country town where Brown&rsquo\;s family and thousands of other s were displaced by America&rsquo\;s largest nuclear power bomb-making fac ility\; a South Carolina field where a long-forgotten cousin recounts\, in the dead of night\, a fuller history of Brown&rsquo\;s sharecropping chil dhood\, which until now has been a mystery. McBride seeks out the American expatriate in England who co-created the James Brown sound\, visits the t rusted right-hand manager who worked with Brown for forty-one years\, and interviews Brown&rsquo\;s most influential nonmusical creation\, his &ldqu o\;adopted son\,&rdquo\; the Reverend Al Sharpton. He describes the stirri ng visit of Michael Jackson to the Augusta\, Georgia\, funeral home where the King of Pop sat up all night with the body of his musical godfather\, spends hours talking with Brown&rsquo\;s first wife\, and lays bare the Di ckensian legal contest over James Brown&rsquo\;s estate\, a fight that has consumed careers\; prevented any money from reaching the poor schoolchild ren in Georgia and South Carolina\, as instructed in his will\; cost Brown &rsquo\;s estate millions in legal fees\; and left James Brown&rsquo\;s bo dy to lie for more than eight years in a gilded coffin in his daughter&rsq uo\;s yard in South Carolina.
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