Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams; The Early Years, 1903–1940 Audiobook

Quotes

• “Those of us who have been waiting all these years to learn everything there is to know about Crosby can only be grateful.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “The author’s boundless but utterly clear-eyed enthusiasm for his subject is contagious.”

  — People

• “He represses his style to a degree, as if to clear the decks for Crosby’s own remarkable story.”

  — New York Newsday

• “Giddins has done his work diligently…proves himself an alert…commentator.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “An unusually detailed look at a life that was thought to be highly public.”

  — San Diego Union Tribune

• “An amazing job of rehabilitating Crosby’s record.”

  — Atlanta Journal-Constitution

• “Crosby couldn’t have hoped for a finer biographer: elegant writer, informed historian, thorough scholar, and one of America’s most eminent jazz critics.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “Giddins’s intelligent and formidably well-informed biography covering the entertainer’s life from his birth in 1903 through the film that launched his mega-grossing partnership with Bob Hope.”

  — Washington Post

• “A perceptive portrait of Crosby as a man, a singer, a radio personality and a budding movie star in the loose, creative years before he hardened into a monument.”

  — Publishers Weekly