Man in Black

Matthew Hennessey reviews the new biography of Johnny Cash. An excerpt:

But everything that should be here is here: the endearing four-year courtship-by-letter between Cash the Air Force signalman and his first wife, Vivian; the 500-acre Los Padres National Forest fire set by Cash while stoned; the bust for attempting to smuggle more than a thousand pills across the Mexican border in 1965; the “pet” ostrich that attacked Cash while he went for a walk on his own property, opening a gash in his stomach; Cash’s subsequent attempt to get high in his hospital bed by shoving Valium under his bandages and into the wound. It is at times a very wild ride.