(Paperback)

This biography portrays with precision and insight the tragically brief life - from the Brooklyn tenements to Broadway, Hollywood, and Carnegie Hall - of George Gershwin (1898-1937), a man whose music and career - like F. Scott Fitzgerald's - embodied the glamorous success and lost possibility of the Jazz Age.

(Paperback)

"Both the definitive biography of the Gershwin brothers and a lavishly illustrated chronicle of the American era their music and lyrics embodied, The Gershwin Years celebrates the musical achievements"