I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby: Dorothy Fields and Her Life in the American Musical Theater

Richard Rodgers, 'scar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, and. .. Dorothy Fields. These are the giants of the golden age of musical theater. Although she may not be as well known as her male counterparts, Dorothy Fields was America's most brilliant and successful female lyricist, who for five decades kept up with the greats.

As the only woman among the boys' club of popular song, Fields was welcomed by her fellow male artists, who considered her as both an equal and a beloved colleagu...