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In Black and White by Haygood Wil is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is In Black and White about?
He was, for decades, one of the most recognizable figures in the cultural landscape, his image epitomizing a golden age of American show business. His career spanned a lifetime, but for years he has remained hidden behind the persona he so vigorously generated, and so fiercely protected. Now, in this surprising, illuminating, and compulsively readable biography, we are taken beyond the icon, into the extraordinary, singular life of Sammy Davis, Jr.In scrupulous detail and with stunning powers of evocation, Wil Haygood takes us back to the era of vaudeville, where it all began for four-year-old Sammy who ran out onstage one night and stole the show. From then on it was a motherless childhood on the road, singing and dancing his way across a segregated America with his father and the formidable showman Will Mastin, struggling together to survive the Depression and the demise of vaudeville itself.With an ambition honed by poverty and an obsessive need for...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Haygood Wil
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Rating
- 3.46 / 5 (180 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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