Irving Berlin: New York Genius

by James Kaplan

Book Overview

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a fast-moving, musically astute portrait of arguably the greatest composer of American popular music

Irving Berlin (1888-1989) has been called--by George Gershwin, among others--the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. "Berlin has no place in American music," legendary composer Jerome Kern wrote; "he is American music." In a career that spanned an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300180489
• ISBN13: 9780300180480
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 8.6"