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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.

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

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.