A pulitzer-prize winning critic from the New York Times offers this passionate, incisive, and bracing cultural anaylsis of one of the most complex and enigmatic figures in the history of pop culture. This stunning book contains an incontrovertible lowdown on the King of Pop from all angles, considering his childhood and the formation as a prodigy in the music industry to questions about the implications of society and culture as a whole in creating the uncanny neo-Gothic dandy of his later days. A powerful reckoning with a quintessential figure of American society and popular culture.(This book may contain a sharpie mark on the top or bottom edge and may show mild signs of shelfwear.)