Mark Cohen
Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman.
Brandeis University Press, 2013. Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life. 9781611682564 xiii/353 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.5", is bound in gilt-lettered red cloth and red paper-covered boards. Book displays light dust soiling to top edge of text block. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright pages. Dust jacket shows light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"In "Overweight Sensation", Mark Cohen argues persuasively for Sherman's legacy as a touchstone of postwar humor and a turning point in Jewish American cultural history. With exclusive access to Allan Sherman's estate, Cohen has written the first biography of the manic, bacchanalian, and hugely creative artist who sold three million albums in just twelve months, yet died in obscurity a decade later at the age of forty-nine. Comprehensive, dramatic, stylish, and tragic, "Overweight Sensation" is destined to become the definitive Sherman biography".