James Brown Audio Books

James Brown is also known as the Godfather of Soul and the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, among other titles.

Award-winning author James Brown gained a cult following after chronicling his turbulent childhood and spiraling drug addiction in The Los Angeles Diaries.

Now 60 - with years of sobriety under his belt - and the father of three sons, James Brown writes about finding a new path in life, making peace with the family whose ghosts have haunted him, and helping the next generation of addicts overcome their disease.

Plagued by the suicides of both his siblings, heir to alcohol and drug abuse, divorce and economic ruin, James Brown lived a life clouded by addiction, broken promises and despair.

We live in a world that all too often operates under the overriding template of self-promotion, embracing a hooray for me attitude....