Leonard Bernstein

Richly detailed and in-depth, this compelling study of Bernstein vividly brings to light this controversial and contradictory figure. Incorporating hundreds of interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, as well as Bernstein's own legacy of letters and papers, this work delivers the composer, pianist, author, television personality, Harvard lecturer, cultural icon and conductor without peer as a man of extraordinary passion with anenormous appetite for the center stage. Notes, biblio., author's note, index. B&W illus. 594p.