Book jacket image for Ira Gershwin by Michael Owen

Liveright

9781324091813

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Ira Gershwin

Michael Owen’s thoughtful, engaging biography illuminates the life and work of Ira Gershwin.

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Review of ‘Ira Gershwin’

Ira Gershwin has long been regarded as one of the major lyricists of the Great American Songbook. Many of his contributions to Broadway shows, movies and recordings from the 1920s to the 1950s remain popular today. Three of his songs were nominated for Academy Awards but did not win. Today, those songs “The Man that…

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