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From his amazing conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's legend blazed brilliantly. With this fresh and revealing biography of Bernstein's political life, Barry Seldes examines Bernstein's career against the background of cold warfare America - blacklisting by the State Department in 1950, voluntary exile from the brand new York Philharmonic in 1951 for fear that he could be blacklisted, signing a humiliating affidavit to regain his passport - and the factors that by the mid-1950s allowed his triumphant go back to the brand new York Philharmonic. Seldes for the very first time links Bernstein's great concert-hall and musical-theatrical successes and his real and identified creative setbacks to his involvment with intensifying political causes. Making comprehensive use of recently untapped FBI files as well as forgotten materials in the Catalogue of Congress' Bernstein archive, Seldes illuminates the ways in which Bernstein's career intersected with the 20th century's most momentous incidents. This broadly accessible and impressively recorded bill of the celebrity-maestro's life deepens our understanding of an entire time as it unveils important and frequently disregarded intersections of American culture and political power.This publication is published by University or college of California Press.
