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Irving Berlin

Book Review: “Irving Berlin: New York Genius” — A Significant Life

Biographer James Kaplan was aided by the assistance of Irving Berlin’s two elder daughters, and that makes this biography particularly valuable.

By: Benjamin Sears Filed Under: Books, Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Benjamin Sears, Irving Berlin, Jewish Lives, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: A Documentary Biography of Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin fans will be pleased to see such items as the complete Jerome Kern letter, (written in 1925!) in which Kern writes: “Irving Berlin has no place in American music. HE IS AMERICAN MUSIC.”

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Music Tagged: Benjamin Sears, Irving Berlin, Oxford University Press, The Irving Berlin Reader

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