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A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956.

From 1946 to 1956, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis provoked audiences into rollicking laughter as they shook up and delighted a culture they both mediated and made fun of. Using the duo''s phenomenal popularity as a starting point, The Biggest Thing in Show Business looks askance at postwar America with a fast-moving sweep, jam-packed with unexpected connections, revealing details, and surprising insights. Aiming to be as unconventional as their subjects, Murray Pomerance and Matthew Solomon enact a highly spontaneous and up-to-the-minute approach to coauthorship that re-establishes the importance of Martin & Lewis in the cultural pantheon. As a result, the book''s structure, methodology, and writing style are thoroughly dialogic and firmly opposed to stale convention.

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      Publisher: State University of New York Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 2/1/2024 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781438496528, 978-1438496528
      ISBN10: 1438496524

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956.

      From 1946 to 1956, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis provoked audiences into rollicking laughter as they shook up and delighted a culture they both mediated and made fun of. Using the duo''s phenomenal popularity as a starting point, The Biggest Thing in Show Business looks askance at postwar America with a fast-moving sweep, jam-packed with unexpected connections, revealing details, and surprising insights. Aiming to be as unconventional as their subjects, Murray Pomerance and Matthew Solomon enact a highly spontaneous and up-to-the-minute approach to coauthorship that re-establishes the importance of Martin & Lewis in the cultural pantheon. As a result, the book''s structure, methodology, and writing style are thoroughly dialogic and firmly opposed to stale convention.

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