Biography of michael jackson book

“Veteran journalist Steve Knopper balances the musical and the personal, packing the pages of The Genius of Michael Jackson with fascinating anecdotes, covering every stage of the singer’s career in vivid detail….The section on Jackson’s childhood is especially gripping….an authoritative account of a world-changing force of nature.”

– Rolling Stone

"Steve Knopper has done something very difficult: He's written a fair-minded, musically comprehensive biography of the weirdest superstar in pop history.

This is the clearest, most objective portrait of Jackson I've read."

– Chuck Klosterman

"A rich and thorough examination of one of music's most riveting, mystifying, incandescent figures. Steve Knopper brings insight and clarity to the chaos of Michael Jackson's tragic final years, but—maybe more importantly—fleshes out the powerful and brilliant performances that transfixed the world."

– Alan Light, author of "Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the M