 | Earn 2% eBay Bucks on qualifying purchases! Backed by eBay Buyer Protection Program. Terms and Conditions apply. (In-Stock) For Johnny Cash, as for many famous artist, renown was the product of both hard work and luck. Often a visionary and always a tireless performer, he forged his career within a whirlwind of social, economic, and cultural countercurrents. Nine Choices explores the tension between Cash's desire for mainstream success, his personal struggles with alcohol and drugs, and an ever-changing cultural landscape that often circumscribed his options.Drawing on interviews, archival research, and textual analysis, Jonathan Silverman focuses on Cash's personal and artistic choices as a way of understanding his life and his legacy. Cash made decisions about where he would live, what he would play, who would produce his albums, whether he would support the Vietnam War, and even if he would flip his famous "bird"-the iconic image of Cash giving the finger which is now plastered on posters and T-shirts everywhere-in the context of pressures both visible and opaque.Less a conventional biography than a study of the | | SEE IT |