Goldman’s account of Lennon detonated on release for it's sprawling, forensic, often hostile excavation of the man behind the myth.

Where earlier portraits leaned luminous, this one digs into addiction, ambition, cruelty, charisma, contradiction. It reads less like tribute and more like cross-examination.

Controversial on publication and still divisive, it remains part of the Lennon archive precisely because of that friction. Whether you read it as corrective, sensationalist, or something in between, it refuses to treat its subject as untouchable.

This 1988 Guild edition. Dust jacket present with visible staining and tide marks to edges; some surface wear; internally clean and sound.