June 2022 Book Recommendations
Betty Comden’s OFF STAGE; early success with Singin’ in the Rain and On the Town birthed a sixty-year collaboration–the longest in musical history.
Jerry Lewis’s and James Kaplan’s DEAN & ME (A LOVE STORY); sharing fame, fortune, fraternity, and failure with Dean Martin.
David McCullough’s TRUMAN; from haberdasher to senator; vice president and the White House; a comprehensive biography of the 33rd president of the United States.
Edith Bolling Wilson’s MY MEMOIR; the life of President Woodrow Wilson’s second wife–with some “convenient” omissions.