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Article: Irving Berlin: A Daughter's Memoir.
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- The Saturday Evening Post
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- January 1, 1995
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"God Bless America." "There's No Business Like Show Business." "Puttin' on the Ritz." "White Christmas."
These songs, among hundreds of others, define not merely a generation but the entire 20th-century American way of life. Irving Berlin, the Russian cantor's son, born Irving Baline in 1888, created a musical legacy that will probably be felt for generations to come.
What most people probably don't know, and what Mary Ellin Barrett makes quite clear in Irving Berlin: A Daughter's Memoir, is that Berlin also was a husband and a very loving, if somewhat distant, father. In her fourth book and first biography, Berlin's oldest daughter travels back in time to ...