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Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946

byGary Giddins

Bing Crosby dominated American popular culture in a way that few artists ever have. Using biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, Bing Crosby moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing Bing Crosby within biography & autobiography, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment. Readers come away with both the essential context and a sharper sense of how the swinging on a star: the war years, 1940-1946 continues to shape the present.

Publisher

Little Brown & Company

Publication date

2018

Format

Print edition

Pages

736

ISBN

9780316887922