NEW JACK JOHNSON BOOK

THE DANCING MASTER · Post by **THE DANCING MASTER** » 08 Nov 2004, 15:44

Hey Folks,

I was in Borders this past weekend and saw a new book on Jack Johnson titled Unforgivable Blackness - The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson by Geoffrey Ward. It is 512 pages and put out by Knopf. In reading through the book I really didn't find any information that I don't already have in some of the books I have on Johnson in my collection. Furthermore, the actual quality of the book left something to be desired in that the pages were a cheap and rough grade of paper and the binding appeared to be weak. For $26.95 I expect better in a hardback book. The book review section of my local Sunday paper gave it a review and stated that work was on the dry side.

Has anyone here actually read the book yet and if so what are your comments?

Either way I am glad to see another Jack Johnson resurgence. If you remember there was a lot of renewed interest in Johnson back in 1970 with the play and film The Great White Hope with James Earl Jones.

Wherever Jack is today, I bet he is flashing that golden smile.

robert.snell1 · Post by **robert.snell1** » 08 Nov 2004, 16:19

Hi

interesting you talk about the quality of the book and it being poor. Checkout the other thread on Johnson as there is to say the least a lively debate going on whether he was guilty etc

you may like to add something from the book

dandantheweatherman · Post by **dandantheweatherman** » 20 Dec 2004, 00:30

I ordered that book from Amazon in the UK and had the same problem with poor production quality of the book. Never seen a worse book in that respect - I thought I had a faulty copy. Anyway, not read it yet so hope it's good.