Great American Songbook
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Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers (Applause Books)
by:
Meryle Secrest
4.02 avg rating — 58 ratings 104. 
Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era
by:
Ken Emerson
3.97 avg rating — 271 ratings 
110. 
The Music in George's Head: George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue
by:
Suzanne Slade
4.14 avg rating — 298 ratings 112. 
Stairway to Paradise: Growing Up Gershwin
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Nadia Natali
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 
113. 
Jazz: America's Gift: From Its Birth to George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue & Beyond
by:
Richie Gerber
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 115. 
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“On My Way”: The Untold Story of Rouben Mamoulian, George Gershwin, and
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Joseph Horowitz
3.58 avg rating — 26 ratings 117. 
The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts 2.81 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan
by:
Elaine M. Hayes
3.94 avg rating — 189 ratings 136. 
The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built
by:
Jack Viertel
4.07 avg rating — 1,838 ratings 
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Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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It Might As Well Be Spring: A Musical Autobiography
by:
Margaret Whiting
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 144. 
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Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell's Blue Period
by:
Michelle Mercer
3.50 avg rating — 440 ratings 
146. 
Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946
by:
Gary Giddins
4.29 avg rating — 211 ratings 148. 
Getting To Know Him: A Biography Of Oscar Hammerstein II
by:
Hugh Fordin
4.26 avg rating — 43 ratings 
150. 
The Wordsmiths: Oscar Hammerstein 2nd and Alan Jay Lerner (The Great Songwriters Series)
by:
Stephen Citron
3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings 150. 
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song
by:
Gary Golio
4.23 avg rating — 554 ratings 152. 
We Danced All Night: My Life Behind the Scenes With Alan Jay Lerner
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Doris Shapiro
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 152. 
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
by:
Angela Y. Davis
4.28 avg rating — 1,707 ratings 154. 
American Popular Song Composers: Oral Histories, 1920s-1950s
by:
Michael Whorf
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
155. 
What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years
by:
Ricky Riccardi
4.30 avg rating — 82 ratings 
165. 
Unforgettable: The Life and Mystique of Nat King Cole
by:
Leslie Gourse
3.52 avg rating — 27 ratings 
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Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim
by:
Rob Kapilow
4.20 avg rating — 133 ratings 
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We'll Have Manhattan: The Early Work of Rodgers & Hart
by:
Dominic Symonds
3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings 
178. 
Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole
by:
Will Friedwald
3.80 avg rating — 30 ratings 
183. 
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
by:
Judith Tick
3.68 avg rating — 386 ratings 
186. 
The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family's Legacy of Infidelities
by:
Katharine Weber
3.25 avg rating — 172 ratings 
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