Celebrates the life and career of Michael Jackson, from his early years with the Jackson Five to his worldwide success as a musician, and includes quotes from family and friends on his death.

"Wil Haygood takes us back to the era of vaudeville, where it all began for four-year-old Sammy, who ran out onstage one night and stole the show. From then on it was a motherless childhood on the road, singing and dancing his way across a segregated America with his father and the formidable showman Will Mastin, struggling together to survive the Depression and the demise of vaudeville itself." "With an ambition honed by poverty and an obsessive...