Lena

(price-clipped) [light shelfwear, a little age-toning to top of text block; the jacket shows a little wear along the top edge, light surface wear, one tiny tear at upper front corner] (B&W photographs) Autobiography of the great singer, described in the jacket blurb of this, the first British edition, as "an American Negro -- or Negro American." It's almost mind-boggling to contemplate the changes in the country that were witnessed by Lena Horne over the course of her amazing career, which began in the Cotton Club in Depression-Era New York, took her through the Hollywood studio system in its so-called "Golden Age" (which had no real place for her talents except as a "specialty" act), a successful nightclub and recording career, and a tumultuous inter-racial marriage, on into the civil rights era. (The book was first published in the U.S. in the same year that the Voting Rights Act was passed by Congress.)

Product Info

Publisher: Andre Deutsch

Year: 1966

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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