| Author Name: | Bergreen, Laurence |
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| Topic: | Blackface Minstrelsy |
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The author explores Berlin's long, prolific career, his self-doubt and late-blooming misanthropy, and the tyrannical control he exerted over his legacy of song. From his immigrant beginnings through Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood to his reclusive and bitter final years, this biography reveals the man who wrote 1500 songs but could never quash the fear that, for all his success, he wasn't quite good enough.