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Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical

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A new look at artist Oscar Hammerstein II as a pivotal and underestimated force in the creation of modern American culture

“Smart and insightful. . . . [Winer] has an intuitive grasp of Hammerstein’s aesthetic and character. She gets him.”—New York Review of Books


You know his work—Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I. But you don’t really know Oscar Hammerstein II, the man who, more than anyone else, invented the American musical. Among the most commercially successful artists ...