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Dream Lucky: When FDR was in the White House, Count Basie was on the radio, and everyone wore a hat... by Roxane Orgill

Dream Lucky: When FDR was in the White House, Count Basie was on the radio, and everyone wore a hat...

Roxane Orgill

256 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history music informative slow-paced
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The time: 1936-1938. The mood: Hopeful. It wasn't wartime, not yet. The music: The incomparable Count Basie and Benny Goodman, among others. The setting: Living rooms across America and, most of all, New York City.Dream Lucky covers politics, race...

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