Jacko: His Rise and Fall : The Social and Sexual History of Michael Jackson

by Porter, Darwin

• ISBN13: 9780974811857
• ISBN10: 0974811858
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-15
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

In the 1980s Michael Jackson was the most controversial figure in the world, generating fame that was greater in some places than that associated with either the US president or Jesus Christ. Dripping with ironies, and with the kind of text that really connects the hundreds of dots that Michael Jackson has tattooed into the world's consciousness, this is the first ever comprehensive and inclusive biography ever written about America's most bizarre superstar. Startling revelations about the Wizard of Odd.

Author Biography

As a young boy in Florida, celebrity biographer Darwin Porter began meeting singers who included Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra when his mother worked as the "Girl Friday" for Sophie Tucker, "the last of the red-hot mammas." Previous subjects of the biographies he has written have included Katharine Hepburn, Howard ("The Aviator") Hughes, Humphrey Bogart, and Marlon Brando, which the SUNDAY TIMES of London defined as "Lurid, raunchy, perceptive, and definitely worth reading." A Hollywood columnist and radio broadcaster, and award-winning author of many current editions of the FROMMER TRAVEL GUIDES, Porter began gathering material on Michael Jackson and his family back in the 60s, interviewing everyone from hotel managers to show business personalities about their close encounters with "Jacko." When not traveling (which is rare), Porter lives in New York City.