In light of the allegations against him,Emma Brockes revists Cosbys Love and Marriage, published in 1989, and finds a expressionless book suddenly made fascinatingIn 1989,Bill Cosby published a book called Love and Marriage, a memoir-cum-relationship-manual following on from his titles on fatherhood and aging, or ahead of his book on how to be black in America. The publication of approach On,People, in which he told African Americans they could overcome racism if they’d only pull up their trousers and stop listening to gangsta rap, and was until final year his most controversial episode. How quaint (charmingly old fashioned) it seems now – to dislike the man for the slant of his politics.
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Source: theguardian.com