MICHAEL JACKSON: Unauthorized

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Michael Jackson was the most talked-about, written-about, and rumored-about pop star of all time even before headline-grabbing child sex-abuse charges threatened to end his career. That he is at the epicenter of the show business scandal of the century seems only fitting: Michael Jackson is, after all, generally conceded to be the greatest entertainer of our time. Reclusive, enigmatic, and utterly fascinating, he is also the man for whom the word "bizarre" might have been invented. For this first comprehensive, uncompromising biography of the controvesial star, author Christopher Andersen interviewed countless friends, advisers, family members, teachers, coworkers, business partners, neighbors, intimates, and employees. Andersen paints a mesmerizing, often shocking, portrait of the Man in the Mirror. Here is Michael Jackson in all his brilliance and complexity: the crotch-grabbing sex symbol who at thirty-six was still a virgin; the preening narcissist who hates his face so much he transforms it through plastic surgery; the diehard promoter of family virtues who resents his own; the man who never had a childhood--and the child who never grew up. As compelling and provocative as its subject, MICHAEL JACKSON, UNAUTHORIZED chronicles in searing detail the meteoric rise and astonishing fall of the world's greatest living pop icon. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] Fine,first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. BIOS1