The World of Jerome Kern: A Biography

The year was 1905, the name of the show was The Earl and the Girl, the hit tune was "How'd You Like to Spoon With Me?" and it started an unknown young songwriter named Jerome Kern on the road to success. Forty years and 1,000 songs later, at the time of his death, Jerome Kern was already a legend in Tin Pan Alley.
Now the fantastic life story of this gentle little "music man" is told for the first time in a full-scale biography. David Ewen has painted a masterful portrait of Kern—the warm ...