Brandeis University Press
June 2013
On Sale: May 30, 2013
320 pages ISBN: 1611682568 EAN: 9781611682564 Kindle: B00CLWRQDY Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In Overweight Sensation, Mark Cohen argues persuasively for Sherman's legacy as a touchstone of postwar humor and a turning point in Jewish American cultural history. With exclusive access to Allan Sherman's estate, Cohen has written the first biography of the manic, bacchanalian, and hugely creative artist who sold three million albums in just twelve months, yet died in obscurity a decade later at the age of forty-nine. Comprehensive, dramatic, stylish, and tragic, Overweight Sensation is destined to become the definitive Sherman biography.
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