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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Musical Demon: Early Years | |
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| Ward Morehouse: A Trip to Chinatown with Irving Berlin | |
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| Rennold Wolf: The Boy Who Revived Ragtime | |
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| Edward Jablonski: "Alexander" and Irving | |
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| Charles Hamm: Excerpt from Alexander and His Band | |
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| "Madam Critic": Review of Watch Your Step | |
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| Harry B. Smith: Excerpt from First Nights and First Editions | |
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| Margaret Knapp: Watch Your Step: Irving Berlin's 1914 Musical | |
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| Ghost of Verdi Interviewed: Tells How He Suffers Nightly | |
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| Robert Baral: Fond Memory: Those Music Box Revues | |
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| Robert Benchley: Letter about The Music Box | |
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| S. I. deKrafft: "Yes, We Have No Bananas" in Grand Opera Setting | |
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| Blue Skies: Middle Years | |
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| George S. Kaufman: Memoir | |
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| Letter from Jerome Kern to Alexander Woollcott, from The Story of Irving Berlin | |
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| Richard Rodgers: Excerpt from Musical Stages | |
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| Richard Barrios: Excerpt from chapter "The March of Time" in A Song in the Dark | |
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| Howard Pollack: Unity of Word and Tone in Two Ballads by Irving Berlin | |
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| Benjamin Sears: The Origins of "Easter Parade" | |
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| Cleve Sallendan G-A-W-D Bless A-M-E-R-I-K-E-R! | |
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| "No Right to a Personal Interest in 'God Bless America,'" Berlin Is Told | |
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| Excerpt from Stokowski, Here for Concert Tonight, Praises Martial, Folk Songs; Likes to Play for Soldiers | |
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| Irving Berlin Orders Song Word Change | |
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| Richard Rodgers: Excerpt from Musical Stages | |
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| Ethel Merman, as told to Pete Martin: Excerpt from Who Could Ash for Anything More | |
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| Brooks Atkinson: On Annie Get Your Gun | |
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| Harold Arlen and Ralph Blane: Verse to "Halloween" | |
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| John Russell Taylor and Arthur Jackson: Chapter Excerpt from The Hollywood Musical on Fred Astaire | |
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| Fred Astaire: Excerpt from Steps in Time | |
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| The Melody Lingers On: Later Years | |
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| Joshua Logan: A Ninetieth-Birthday Salute to the Master of American Song | |
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| Nancy Caldwell Sorel: First Encounters: Irving Berlin and George Gershwin | |
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| Mark Steyn: Excerpts from Top Hat and Tails | |
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| Marilyn Bergen Berlin at 100: Life on a High Note | |
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| Murray Kempton: Bit of Blues for Ballads of Berlin | |
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| Josh Rubins: Genius without Tears | |
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| Arthur Maisel: Irving Berlin (1888-1989) | |
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| Edward Sorel: Cartoon, "September 22,1989" | |
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| Irving Berlin in His Own Words | |
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| Irving Berlin: How to Write Ragtime Songs | |
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| Irving Berlin: Song and Sorrow Are Playmates | |
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| Frank Ward O'Malley: Irving Berlin Gives Nine Rules for Writing Popular Songs | |
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| Isaac Goldberg: Excerpt from Words and Music from Irving Berlin | |
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| Irving Berlin: Selected Letters | |
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| Irving Berlin: Irving Berlin's Insomnia | |
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| Lead sheet for "Soft lights and Sweet Music" | |
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| Biographical Highlights | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Index | |