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Cold Sweat: My Father James Brown and Me
Being the child of a global superstar is never easy. Being the daughter of the Godfather of Soul—that’s a category unto itself.

Like every little girl, Yamma Brown wanted her father’s attention, but fame, drugs, jail, and the complicated women in James Brown’s life set the stage for an uncommon childhood. Cold Sweat is about how Yamma rose to meet every challenge. Though packed with celebrity appearances ranging from Michael Jackson to Al Sharpton, Cold Sweat is not just a celebrity book. It focuses on an everyday issue faced by millions of women—domestic violence—and in this book Yamma faces it in an honest and powerfully moving way. Dealing with a complex and famous father eventually took a backseat to coping with her own abusive and deceitful marriage. Cold Sweat is about how Yamma got caught in the same trap as her mother, doing things in her adult life that, as a child, she’d promised herself she’d never do. But at the same time, Yamma learned valuable lessons about life from her father. The struggles she went through, both as a child and as an adult, make for a gripping read and, in the end, a profound examination of the nature of celebrity, violence, and survival.

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Cold Sweat: My Father James Brown and Me
Being the child of a global superstar is never easy. Being the daughter of the Godfather of Soul—that’s a category unto itself.

Like every little girl, Yamma Brown wanted her father’s attention, but fame, drugs, jail, and the complicated women in James Brown’s life set the stage for an uncommon childhood. Cold Sweat is about how Yamma rose to meet every challenge. Though packed with celebrity appearances ranging from Michael Jackson to Al Sharpton, Cold Sweat is not just a celebrity book. It focuses on an everyday issue faced by millions of women—domestic violence—and in this book Yamma faces it in an honest and powerfully moving way. Dealing with a complex and famous father eventually took a backseat to coping with her own abusive and deceitful marriage. Cold Sweat is about how Yamma got caught in the same trap as her mother, doing things in her adult life that, as a child, she’d promised herself she’d never do. But at the same time, Yamma learned valuable lessons about life from her father. The struggles she went through, both as a child and as an adult, make for a gripping read and, in the end, a profound examination of the nature of celebrity, violence, and survival.

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Being the child of a global superstar is never easy. Being the daughter of the Godfather of Soul—that’s a category unto itself.

Like every little girl, Yamma Brown wanted her father’s attention, but fame, drugs, jail, and the complicated women in James Brown’s life set the stage for an uncommon childhood. Cold Sweat is about how Yamma rose to meet every challenge. Though packed with celebrity appearances ranging from Michael Jackson to Al Sharpton, Cold Sweat is not just a celebrity book. It focuses on an everyday issue faced by millions of women—domestic violence—and in this book Yamma faces it in an honest and powerfully moving way. Dealing with a complex and famous father eventually took a backseat to coping with her own abusive and deceitful marriage. Cold Sweat is about how Yamma got caught in the same trap as her mother, doing things in her adult life that, as a child, she’d promised herself she’d never do. But at the same time, Yamma learned valuable lessons about life from her father. The struggles she went through, both as a child and as an adult, make for a gripping read and, in the end, a profound examination of the nature of celebrity, violence, and survival.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781613735442
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 05/01/2016
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Dr. Yamma Brown is the vice president of the James Brown Family Foundation and president and founder of Daughter of Soul Productions. She is the youngest daughter of Deidre Jenkins and James Brown. It is her life’s mission to right the legacy and maintain the work of her late father. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Robin Gaby Fisher is the author of the New York Times bestseller After the Fire and Boys of the Dark and coauthor of Fields of Grace and The Woman Who Wasn’t There. She is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing; a member of a Pulitzer Prize–winning team; and winner of The National Headliner Award and the Taylor Family Fairness in Media Award, given by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. She teaches narrative journalism at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.
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