"And yet Brown makes no sense at all. He endorsed Hubert Humphrey in 1968 and Richard Nixon in 1972. He attacked racism and spoke at civil rights rallies yet embraced onetime segregationist governor of Georgia Lester Maddox. He criticized black nationalists while declaring America was backward compared to the black revolution happening in Africa. Heck, he recorded 'Say It Loud--I'm Black and I'm Proud' and 'America Is My Home' in the same year!"
RJ Smith in the Los Angeles Times reviews Nelson George and Alan Leeds's The James Brown Reader: 50 Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul.
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