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Margo Jefferson

/ February 19, 2006 / On Michael Jackson

Margo JeffersonPulitzer Prize winner and New York Times cultural critic Margo Jefferson uses her insightful, poetic and personal journalistic style to analyze the racial, cultural, and family forces that contributed to Michael Jackson’s stardom and subsequent fall from grace. In this unusual non-fiction book, Jefferson references such icons as Edgar Allen Poe, Montaigne, P.T. Barnum, Oscar Wilde, Peter Pan, and Mr. Bojangles to create a meditative riff on one of the most influential performers of all time.Listen Now

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