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First publish date: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: R. J. Smith
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James Sullivan’s biography chronicles the historic 1968 Boston Garden concert where James Brown kept the city calm after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, while detailing Brown’s rise from poverty to American cultural icon.

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📘 Respect
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Aretha Franklin’s life and career, from gospel prodigy to Queen of Soul, is recounted through exclusive interviews, detailing her landmark 1967 hit "Respect," personal trials, and enduring influence on music and culture.

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📘 James Brown, the godfather of soul
 by James Brown


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📘 Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul
 by Mark Bego

Traces the life of Aretha Franklin from deserted child to teenage mother to Grammy winner to inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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Cold sweat by 11943540|Yamma Brown book cover

📘 Cold sweat
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"Yamma Brown was one of James Brown's daughters. The struggles she went through, both as a child and as an adult, provide a profound examination of the nature of celebrity, violence, and survival"--Provided by publisher.

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