Bing Crosby's Last Song
Bing Crosby's Last Song

Author: Lester Goran

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1999-09-04

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780312203986

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On a spring day in 1968, Pittsburgher Daly Racklin discovers that he has one year to live. An attorney and the reluctant linchpin of a dying Irish neighborhood, culture, and people, he is at once a man torn by his father's omnipotent shadow and the struggles of his own heart. As his elevated position brings him from one home to another, he increasingly discovers the importance of what he sees disappearing. Bing Crosby's Last Song is a funny, touching, heart-wrenching story of survival and love, a community's demise and a wanderer's rebirth.

Bing Crosby's Last Song
Bing Crosby's Last Song

Author: Lester Goran

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2015-03-17

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1466892390

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A novel by the author of The New York Times Notable Book, Tales from the Irish Club It is June 1968: Robert Kennedy has just been murdered, the streets are simmering with discontent, and the Irish community of Oakland Park in Pittsburgh is being swept away by change. Daly Racklin becomes the reluctant leader of a dying neighborhood, culture, and people. He is at once a man torn by his father's omnipotent shadow and the struggles of his own heart, and as his elevated position brings him from one home to another he increasingly discovers the importance of what he sees disappearing. Bing Crosby's Last Song is a hilarious, touching, heartwrenching story of survival and love, a community's demise and a wanderer's rebirth. Full of barroom lore, hard-bitten wisdom, wry humor, and faith tempered by skepticism, this novel will delight readers of William Kennedy and Frank McCourt.

Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby

Author: Gary Giddins

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: 2009-11-29

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 0316091561

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From Bing Crosby's early days in college minstrel shows and vaudeville, to his first hit recordings, from his 11 year triumph as star of America's most popular radio show, to his first success in Hollywood, Gary Giddins provides a detailed study of the rise of this American star.

Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby

Author: Malcolm Macfarlane

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 864

ISBN-13:

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Details the life of Crosby, almost on a daily basis, and, with the aid of many contemporary reviews, produces an account of one of the most important show business figures of the twentieth century. A discography, a fact file and a large index, which picks up many other show biz icons, supplements this work.

White Christmas: The Story of a Song
White Christmas: The Story of a Song

Author: Jody Rosen

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2017-05-25

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0008245916

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"Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it's the best song anybody ever wrote." Irving Berlin, 1942 A biography of the single most important record in the history of popular music