Imagining the Triumph and Tragedy of Michael Jackson's Last Days

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 21, 2016

Tavis Smiley, host of PBS's Tavis Smiley and PRI's "The Tavis Smiley Show" and the co-author of Before You Judge Me: The Triumph and Tragedy of Michael Jackson's Last Days (Little, Brown and Company, 2016), talks about his book.

→ Hear more: Smiley has a book reading tonight at the Barnes and Noble in Union Square at 7:30pm.

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