Reviews
"What makes this galvanic, richly variegated, novelistic biography ring so true is that Frady . . . manages to balance society's shortcomings with Jackson's own. . . . Frady's biography comes off as voluble and dynamic as Jackson himself."--Entertainment Weekly, "Frady's . . . biography of Jesse Jackson, perhaps our era's most spellbinding political preacher, [is] hugely useful in the way [it lays] out for our inspection the split personality of this nation. Frady is one of the best political biographers of our time."-- Robert Sherrill,Los Angeles Times, "What makes this galvanic, richly variegated, novelistic biography ring so true is that Frady . . . manages to balance society's shortcomings with Jackson's own. . . . Frady's biography comes off as voluble and dynamic as Jackson himself." -- Entertainment Weekly, "What makes this galvanic, richly variegated, novelistic biography ring so true is that Frady . . . manages to balance society's shortcomings with Jackson's own. . . . Frady's biography comes off as voluble and dynamic as Jackson himself."-- Entertainment Weekly, "Astonishing . . . as subtle and perceptive a portrait as any black writer could have produced of one of the most complex public figures of our times . . . Frady provides such a full-bodied portrait of this awesomely gifted but equally flawed man that it should provoke a repositioning of Jackson's place in history." -- Time, "Never before has the Jackson gravitas been captured with such brio, honesty, shrewdness and big-heartedness as Frady brings forth in his mesmerizing book."-- The Boston Globe, "Never before has the Jacksongravitasbeen captured with such brio, honesty, shrewdness and big-heartedness as Frady brings forth in his mesmerizing book."--The Boston Globe, "Astonishing . . . as subtle and perceptive a portrait as any black writer could have produced of one of the most complex public figures of our times . . . Frady provides such a full-bodied portrait of this awesomely gifted but equally flawed man that it should provoke a repositioning of Jackson's place in history."-- Time, "Astonishing . . . as subtle and perceptive a portrait as any black writer could have produced of one of the most complex public figures of our times . . . Frady provides such a full-bodied portrait of this awesomely gifted but equally flawed man that it should provoke a repositioning of Jackson's place in history."--Time, "Never before has the Jackson "gravitas" been captured with such brio, honesty, shrewdness and big-heartedness as Frady brings forth in his mesmerizing book."-- "The Boston Globe", "Frady's . . . biography of Jesse Jackson, perhaps our era's most spellbinding political preacher, [is] hugely useful in the way [it lays] out for our inspection the split personality of this nation. Frady is one of the best political biographers of our time."-- Robert Sherrill, Los Angeles Times, "Frady's . . . biography of Jesse Jackson, perhaps our era's most spellbinding political preacher, Yis? hugely useful in the way Yit lays? out for our inspection the split personality of this nation. Frady is one of the best political biographers of our time."-- Robert Sherrill, "Los Angeles Times", "Never before has the Jackson gravitas been captured with such brio, honesty, shrewdness and big-heartedness as Frady brings forth in his mesmerizing book." -- The Boston Globe, "Astonishing . . . as subtle and perceptive a portrait as any black writer could have produced of one of the most complex public figures of our times . . . Frady provides such a full-bodied portrait of this awesomely gifted but equally flawed man that it should provoke a repositioning of Jackson's place in history."-- "Time", "Frady has delivered a thoroughly researched, at times poetically written profile of a towering public man."-- The Washington Times, "Frady has delivered a thoroughly researched, at times poetically written profile of a towering public man."--The Washington Times, "Frady has delivered a thoroughly researched, at times poetically written profile of a towering public man." -- The Washington Times, "Frady has delivered a thoroughly researched, at times poetically written profile of a towering public man."-- "The Washington Times", "Frady's . . . biography of Jesse Jackson, perhaps our era's most spellbinding political preacher, [is] hugely useful in the way [it lays] out for our inspection the split personality of this nation. Frady is one of the best political biographers of our time." -- Robert Sherrill, Los Angeles Times, "What makes this galvanic, richly variegated, novelistic biography ring so true is that Frady . . . manages to balance society's shortcomings with Jackson's own. . . . Frady's biography comes off as voluble and dynamic as Jackson himself."-- "Entertainment Weekly"