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Dream Lucky

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An edition of Dream lucky (2008)

Dream Lucky

When FDR was in the White House, Count Basie was on the radio, and everyone wore a hat...

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The time: 1936-1938. The mood: Hopeful. It wasn't wartime, not yet. The music: The incomparable Count Basie and Benny Goodman, among others. The setting: Living rooms across America and, most of all, New York City.Dream Lucky covers politics, race, religion, arts, and sports, but the central focus is the period's soundtrack—specifically big band jazz—and the big-hearted piano player William "Count" Basie. His ascent is the narrative thread of the book—how he made it and what made his music different from the rest. But many other stories weave in and out: Amelia Earhart pursues her dream of flying "around the world at its waistline." Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., stages a boycott on 125th Street. And Mae West shocks radio listeners as a naked Eve tempting the snake.Critic Nat Hentoff praises the "precise originality" with which Roxane Orgill writes about music. In Dream Lucky, she magically lets readers hear the past.

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Language
English
Pages
304

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Dream lucky: when FDR was in the White House, Count Basie was on the radio, and everyone wore a hat--
2008, Smithsonian Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Dream Lucky
Cover of: Dream Lucky
Cover of: Dream Lucky
Dream Lucky: When FDR was in the White House, Count Basie was on the radio, and everyone wore a hat...
April 22, 2008, Collins
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Dream Lucky
Dream Lucky
2008, HarperCollins
Electronic resource in English
Cover of: Dream lucky
Dream lucky: when FDR was in the White House, Count Basie was on the radio, and everyone wore a hat--
2008, Smithsonian Books
in English - 1st ed.

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Hardcover
Number of pages
304
Dimensions
8.2 x 5.5 x 1 inches

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OL9951019M
ISBN 10
0060897503
ISBN 13
9780060897505
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5029014
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2394409

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