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.