A brilliant attack on the American way of celebrity.
For almost three decades Michael Jackson has been both a household name and a household face, a celebrity dogged by controversy, as reviled today as he was once adulated. In this ferociously polemical essay the novelist and critic Gilbert Adair unpicks the myths, scandals and rumours surrounding Jackson's flamboyant public persona and casts an iconociastic eye on the virus of American popular culture of which he has long been an emblematic figure.
