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NEVER DRANK THE KOOL-AID
By: Toure Toure
Essays
Picador
March 2006
On Sale: February 21, 2006
416 pages
ISBN: 0312425783
EAN: 9780312425784
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His name is Tour --just Tour --and like many of the musicians, athletes, and celebrities hes profiled, he has affected the way that we think about culture in America. He has profiled Eminem, 50 Cent, and Alicia Keys for the cover of Rolling Stone. Hes played high-stakes poker with Jay-Z and basketball with Prince and Wynton Marsalis. In Tours world, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. sits beside Condoleezza Rice who sits beside hip-hop pioneer Tupac Shakur, and all of them are fascinating company. Never Drank the Kool-Aid is the chronicle of Tours unparalleled journey through the American funhouse called pop culture. Its rooms are filled with creative, arrogant, kind, ordinary, and extraordinary people, most of whom happen to be famous. It is Tours gift to be able to see through the artifice of their world and understand the genuine motivations behind their achievements -- to see who they truly are as people. This is a searingly funny, surprisingly unguarded, and deeply insightful look at a world few of us comprehend.
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