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Kay Swift (1897-1993) was one of the few women composers active on Broadway in the first half of the twentieth century. Best known as George Gershwin's assistant, musical adviser, and intimate friend, Swift was in fact an accomplished musician herself, a pianist and composer whose Fine and Dandy (1930) was the first complete Broadway musical written by a woman. This fascinating book - the first biography of Swift - discusses her music and her extraordinary life. Vicki Ohl describes Swift's work for musical theatre, the ballet, Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes, and commercial shows. She also tells how Swift served as director of light music for the 1939 World's Fair, eloped with a cowboy from the rodeo at the fair, and abandoned her native New York for Oregon, later fashioning her experiences into an autobiographical novel, Who Could Ask for Anything More? Informed by rich material, including Swift's unpublished memoirs and extensive interviews with her family members and friends, this book captures the essence and spirit of a remarkable woman.
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Melanie Manley
reviewed Red sky at morning on June 05, 2020
Red sky at morning
Originally written October 15, 2007
If ever there was a book to inform on the environmental crises at hand, it's this one.
Yale University dean and professor James Gustave Speth presents a book chock full of facts and statistics showing the slow decline to our current situation with global warming and other environmental dangers the world is currently facing. He extensively informs on pollution, forest preservation, animal extinction, anticipated "healing" of the ozone layer, subtle melting of Arctic lands, the known Montreal and Kyoto Protocols (Wikipedia them) and so much more.
And Speth did his research, too. Part one alone contains 175 footnotes, referencing a section of notes in the back of the book containing more than 360 sources used for information to compile the book. (Talk about a term paper from hell!) Of course, it helps that Speth works at Yale's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and was once president of the World Resources Institute. And that's not even mentioning his winning of Japan's Blue Planet Prize for his efforts with global warming. Safe to say, he knows more about the topic than I do.
And this isn't just a 'history-of'...it's also a 'how-to', showing the ways the largest government to a single person can make a difference in the climate and environment. He even provides a nice roster of resources for those who didn't quite get enough of the book.
Mean for green? Then read some Red.
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