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Personal Conversations
Areheart, Shaye
Charles, Ray
Dileo, Frank
Gordy, Berry
Jackson, Janet
Jackson, Katherine
James, Rick
Jones, Bob
Kawashima, Dale
Kelly, R.
Kravitz, Lenny
Phillinganes, Greg
Robinson, Smokey
Roshkind, Michael
Taylor, Bobby
Yetnikoff, Walter
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Epigraph
Prologue
1. This Is It
2. Who Will Buy This Wonderful Feeling?
3. Stranger in Moscow
5. Jehovah
6. Managerial Warfare
7. Spring
8. Father, Father
9. Managing Managers
10. More and Better
11. Interlude
12. April Fools’ Day
13. Milk
14. Disappear into the Dance
15. Heat
16. Wordless
17. Vulnerable Today, Ruthless Tomorrow
18. Family Reunion
19. Elvis
20. Do or Die
21. How Did It Get So Late So Soon?
22. On the Good Ship Lollipop
23. Breaking News
24. “Give Me Your All—Your Endurance, Your Patience, Your Understanding”
25. June 25, 2009
26. Before You Judge Me
Afterword
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Also by Tavis Smiley
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