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As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin
As Thousands Cheer The Life of Irving Berlin Author:Laurence Bergreen The first -- the only -- full and unauthorized biography of the king of American songwriters: the man of whom rival composer Jerome Kern once said "Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music." — Chronicles the songwriter's rags-to-riches career, from his birth in czarist Russia, to life as an immigrant on New... more » York's Lower East Side, to his rise to the heights of Broadway and Hollywood.« less