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House Of Cash: The Legacies Of My Father, Johnny Cash (2011)

by John Carter Cash(Favorite Author)

4.24 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1608870286 (ISBN13: 9781608870288)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Insight Editions

review 1: As others have said, this is a great book. It's an easy read and offers lots of first-hand accounts that only the sone of John R. Cash and June Carter Cash could share. There is a strong emphasis on how Johnny Cash's faith in God helped him get through his many struggles -- it always centered him. John Carter Cash doesn't try to gloss over his father's low-periods, but also talks about the utmost respect and love he has of his father. The facsimile documents are fantastic and look strikingly real. Very cool.
review 2: The pictures and reproductions of notes written by Johnny Cash and poems and lyrics and other documents are lovely. The text rather frustratingly whitewashed a life that held a lot of hardship and was so clearly distilled by a son who is only fam... moreous because his father was Johnny Cash, a fact we would be unlikely to forget as he centered a lot of the narrative around himself. No doubt this is what John Carter Cash intended, but I was hoping for more of the legacies Johnny Cash left to the world, rather than the semi-cogent legacies he more or less left to his son--the raging sentimentality not endearing him to me but rather encouraging me to skip the text and just look at the pictures. The dangers of biography, I suppose, especially of writing a biography of a family member. less

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