Liberace
An American Boy
The sequinned showman taken seriously as an American original rather than a punchline.
Darden Asbury Pyron takes Liberace seriously as an American phenomenon: a Wisconsin boy of Polish and Italian descent who built the most lucrative act in show business out of candelabra, sequins and an unspoken sexuality that everybody understood and nobody could say. The book is scholarly without being cold, and it restores dignity to a figure who was mostly treated as a joke.
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Jimmy McDonough
This heartfelt work bestows the showman with the dignity he deserves and rightfully tells his story as one of a complex, contrary American hero who managed to break barriers while wearing sequined hot pants and laughing his way to the bank.
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