As Thousands Cheer: The Life Of Irving Berlin

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Hachette Books, 22/03/1996 - 702 páginas
Irving Berlin (1888–1989) was unable to read or write music and could only play the piano in the key of F-sharp major; yet, for the first half of the twentieth century he was America's most successful and most representative songwriter, composing such hits as "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Cheek to Cheek," "Let's Face the Music and Dance," "Puttin' on the Ritz," "White Christmas," "Anything You Can Do," "There's No Business Like Show Business," and "God Bless America." As Thousands Cheer, winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, explores with precision and sensitivity Berlin's long, prolific career; his self-doubt and late-blooming misanthropy; and the tyrannical control he exerted over his legacy of song. From his immigrant beginnings through Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood to his reclusive and bitter final years, this definitive biography reveals the man who wrote 1500 songs but could never quash the fear that, for all his success, he wasn't quite good enough.
 

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Lost Souls
3
Prince and Pauper
14
Tin Pan Alley
30
Reinventing Ragtime
49
Love and Death
71
The Great American Composer?
114
Sergeant Berlin
150
From the Music Box to
174
Recovery
312
Hollywood Refuge
340
Minstrel of Peace
368
Minstrel of War
392
Tycoon
473
Irving Likes Ike
498
The Cheering Stops
528
Coda
562

Mackays Millions
209
xiii
235
Ellin
245
Heartbreak House
276
Chronology
587
Bibliography
601
Index
637
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Laurence Bergreen is the author of acclaimed biographies of James Agee and Al Capone. A writer for numerous publications, including Esquire, Newsweek, New York Times, and American Film, he lives in New York City.

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