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...career that spanned 60 years, Berlin wrote all kinds of songs, about 1,250 of them, which are now collected in "The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin" (Knopf, 530 pp., $65), a handsome tome edited by Robert Kimball and Berlin's second daughter Linda Emmet. The volume - fourth in an invaluable series that previously collected the pop poetry of Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin and Lorenz Hart - supplements all of Berlin's musical words with biographical data, short essays on the most important songs and several hundred unpublished works. It's a book you could live in, happily, for weeks...
Name three women cartoonists who worked from 1900 to 1950. Okay, just name one. Couldn't do it? Neither could I until reading a new, invaluable book, "The Great Women Cartoonists," ($24.95; Watson-Guptill Publications; 150 pp.; softcover), by Trina Robbins. Concentrating mostly on comicstrip and comicbook artists of the last century, Robbins uncovers the secret herstory that got left out from all the other millennial surveys...
...Kennedy Men: 1901-1963 by Laurence Leamer Published by William Morrow, 743 pp...