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**Best Book of 2018 -- NPR,__Library Journal__****The oldest daughter of revered composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father on the centennial of his birth in a deeply intimate and broadly evocative memoir**The composer of __On the Town__ and __West Side Story__, chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic, television star, humanitarian, friend of the powerful and influential, and the life of every party, Leonard Bernstein was an enormous celebrity during one of the headiest periods of American cultural life, as well as the most protean musician in twentieth century America. But to his eldest daughter, Jamie, he was above all the man in the scratchy brown bathrobe who smelled of cigarettes; the jokester and compulsive teacher who enthused about Beethoven and the Beatles; the insomniac whose 4 a.m. composing breaks involved spooning baby food out of the jar. He taught his daughter to love the world in all its beauty and complexity. In public and private, Lenny was larger than life.In __Famous Father Girl__, Bernstein mines the emotional depths of her childhood and invites us into her family’s private world. A fantastic set of characters populates the Berns

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Author

Bernstein, Jamie;Bernstein, Leonard

Publisher

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062641373

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Music, Biography, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (558 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14