Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist (Music/Interview)
“In this detailed, entertaining account, Alonso gives life to a courageous man and artist who risked it all for some simple human truth.” —Publishers Weekly“The book is far more lively and less politically earnest than its title suggests. In fact, it is downright chatty, being essentially a sort of oral history Alonso crafted out of nearly 50 published and unpublished transcripts of radio and television broadcasts, speeches, roundtables, and conversations in which Harburg participated over the years.”—James M. Keller, Pasatiempo“an excellent introduction to the artist.”—Joseph Epstein, The Wall Street Journal“…a good portrait of that picturesque leprechaun of a fellow who followed a crock of gold past that paper moon to somewhere over the rainbow.”—Steven Suskin, Playbill