Incisive, doggedly researched ... Tick...proves an ideal guide to Fitzgerald’s perpetual progress ... With few survivors of Fitzgerald’s era left to interview, Tick makes vigorous use of press coverage, yielding particularly fruitful results from Black newspapers and periodicals that covered seemingly every move the singer made ... This is a book that clearly took a long time to research and write; its insights are deeply ingrained, its observations carefully rendered rather than overstated ... Vivid.
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