Bing Crosby

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“Those of us who have been waiting all these years to learn everything there is to know about Crosby can only be grateful.”

“The author’s boundless but utterly clear-eyed enthusiasm for his subject is contagious.”

“He represses his style to a degree, as if to clear the decks for Crosby’s own remarkable story.”

“Giddins has done his work diligently…proves himself an alert…commentator.”

“An unusually detailed look at a life that was thought to be highly public.”

“An amazing job of rehabilitating Crosby’s record.”

“Giddins’s intelligent and formidably well-informed biography covering the entertainer’s life from his birth in 1903 through the film that launched his mega-grossing partnership with Bob Hope.”

“A perceptive portrait of Crosby as a man, a singer, a radio personality and a budding movie star in the loose, creative years before he hardened into a monument.”

“Crosby couldn’t have hoped for a finer biographer: elegant writer, informed historian, thorough scholar, and one of America’s most eminent jazz critics.”

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