Michael Jackson Unauthorized

It remains to be seen whether Michael Jackson will be exonerated or undone by further revelations in the current child abuse allegations, but however the drama plays out he remains a source of endless fascination to many people. This biography seeks to explain how Michael Jackson came to be the person he is. It examines to what extent Jackson is a victim of a "dysfunctional" family, of an entertainment industry that turns child stars into emotionally crippled adults and of a world press that delighted in building, then destroying, global icons.