Michael Streissguth is obviously a fan of Johnny Cash, the author of "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: The . This is probably the best 'Cash book' out there.

In fact, Marshall Grant's book is quoted extensively. Streissguth blends the outlines of the life with an able painting of the background trends in music and ideas in each phase in such a way that you feel you have accompanied Cash through all parts of his journey.

FREE shipping on qualifying offers. To millions, he was the rebellious Man in Black, the unabashed patriot, the redeemed Christian-the king of country music. But Johnny Cash (1932-2003) was also an uncertain country boy whose dreams were born in the cotton fields of Arkansas and who struggled his entire life with a guilt-ridden childhood.

But Johnny Cash was also an uncertain country boy whose dreams were born in the cotton fields of Arkansas and who struggled his .

But Johnny Cash was also an uncertain country boy whose dreams were born in the cotton fields of Arkansas and who struggled his entire life with a guilt-ridden childhood, addictions, and self-doubt. A sensitive songwriter with profound powers of musical expression, Cash told America and the world the stories of a nation's heroes and outcasts. Johnny Cash: The Biography explores in depth many often-overlooked aspects of the legend's life and career.

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There's no doubt Michael Streissguth faced a challenge in recounting Johnny Cash's life story, one overshadowed by mythmaking during much of his life, and even more so during his career revival in the '90s, following his death in 2003, and after the release of the "Walk the Line" biopic in 2005.

Long before Johnny Cash became immortalized as the Man in Black because he refused to wear rhinestones at. .

Long before Johnny Cash became immortalized as the Man in Black because he refused to wear rhinestones at the Grand Ole Opry, he was grappling with twisted visions of sin and salvation, like a soapbox preacher trying to decode God’s Plan in the public square. Among the numerous coming-of-age anecdotes that populate the early chapters of Michael Streissguth’s richly detailed Johnny Cash: The Biography, however, one stands out. It involves a Texas hobo who wore a ragged blue bandanna around his neck, like the ghost of Jimmie Rodgers.

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To millions, Johnny Cash was the rebellious Man in Black, the unabashed patriot, the redeemed Christian-the king of country music. But Johnny Cash was also an uncertain country boy whose dreams were born in the cotton fields of Arkansas and who struggled his entire life with a guilt-ridden childhood, addictions, and self-doubt.