The first comprehensive biography of America's great mid-century impresario

MARK COHEN is the author of Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman and of two previous books. His articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, the Daily News, American Jewish History, Forward, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Modern Judaism, History of Photography, the Journal of Jewish Studies, the Saul Bellow Journal, and Tablet Magazine. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.