Miss Rhythm The Autobiography of Ruth Brown, Rhythm and Blues Legend

A biography of Tony and Grammy Award-winning Ruth Brown, or Miss Rhythm as she is popularly known, a rhythm-and-blues revolutionary -- a woman whose early successes earned her instant worldwide fame and launched a career that has influenced other performing artists. Inducted into the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame, she is also the standard-bearer in an ongoing battle for musicians rights. In her new role as full trustee of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation, she continues her efforts in behalf of artists rights worldwide. Her story, told here in her own words, is one of trial and triumph, and of chart-topping success in spite of impossible odds.