Respect

This illuminating biography presents "a remarkably complex portrait of Aretha Franklin's music and her tumultuous life" ( Rolling Stone ). Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detroit for New York, where she struggled to find her true voice.  It was not until 1967, when a white Jewish producer insisted s