Table of Contents
Foreword xiii
Part 1
Chapter 1 The Night the Music Stopped 3
Chapter 2 A Child of Newark 10
Chapter 3 The Gospel Truth 31
Chapter 4 Sweet Inspirations 51
Chapter 5 Life on Dodd Street 73
Chapter 6 Training the Voice 96
Chapter 7 Separation 110
Part 2
Chapter 8 Enter Clive Davis 127
Chapter 9 Fame 142
Chapter 10 Welcome Home Heroes 161
Chapter 11 The Bodyguard … and Bobby Brown 180
Chapter 12 "I Never Asked for this Madness" 195
Chapter 13 "I Know Him So Well" 213
Chapter 14 A Very Bad Year 232
Part 3
Chapter 15 Atlanta 253
Chapter 16 The Intervention 266
Chapter 17 The Comeback 279
Chapter 18 "I Look to You" 294
Chapter 19 Bringing My Daughter Home 308
Epilogue 318
Acknowledgments 325
Selected Cissy Houston Discography 335
Selected Whitney Houston Discography 340