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Fever The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee

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ISBN-10: 0312426615

ISBN-13: 9780312426613

Edition: N/A

Authors: Peter Richmond

List price: $31.00
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"I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, and Mr. Cary Grant." So said Miss Peggy Lee. Albert Einstein adored her; Duke Ellington dubbed her "the Queen." With her platinum cool and inimitable whisper, Peggy Lee sold twenty million records, made more money than Mickey Mantle, and presided over music's greatest generation alongside pals Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. nbsp; Drawing on exclusive interviews and never-before-seen information, Peter Richmond delivers a complex, compelling portrait of an artist that begins with a girl plagued by loss, her father's alcoholism, and her stepmother's abuse. One day she boards a train, following her muse and hoping her music will lead her…    
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Book details

List price: $31.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 4/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Peter Richmond attended The Choate School and Yale University. He was awarded a Nieman Fellowship in Journalism at Harvard where he studied art, architecture, paleontology and playwriting. His stories have been anthologized in 13 books, including "Best American Sportswriting of the Twentieth Century," and four appearances in "Best Sportswriting of the Year" anthologies. Peter has published four books, one a New York Times bestseller, and his fifth, "Badasses," a history of the Oakland Raiders of the Seventies was published by HarperCollins in September 2010. He lives in Millerton, New York, in Dutchess County, with his wife, writer and wine purveyor Melissa Davis.