Cliff Eisen is professor of music history at King’s College London. Dominic McHugh is reader in musicology at the University of Sheffield and a leading authority on Broadway.
“[A] gorgeous book”—Roger Lewis, Daily Mail (Book of the Week)
“[An] extensive commentary”—Clive Davis, The Times
“an intimidating marvel of scholarship. . . . The Letters of
Cole Porter amounts to the last word [on Porter], a work as
disjointed and delightful as any of Porter’s unforgettable
songs.”—David Kirby, Washington Post
“Porter’s ghost could not ask for better care than he has been
given in The Letters of Cole Porter . . . . Laid out with a
meticulous scholarly apparatus, as though this were the
correspondence of Grover Cleveland, every turn in the songwriter’s
story is deep-dived for exact chronology, and every name casually
dropped by Porter gets a worried, explicatory footnote.”—Adam
Gopnik, New Yorker
“The letters [. . .] reveal previously hidden details about the
life and work of Cole Porter. [. . .] This extensive collection of
letters uncovered by the researchers – most of which are being
published for the first time – feature Cole’s correspondence with
stars such as Irving Berlin, Ethel Merman and Orson Welles, as well
as his friends and lovers”—Bigstamp
“It is a thought-provoking portrait of a brave, well-intentioned,
if often misguided queen”—Gareth Russell, The Times
“Suavely edited by Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh [. . .] so
detailed and precise that anyone wanting to write the story of
Porter’s life could start here”—Christopher Bray, Spectator
“This is an amazing feat of collation [. . .] brilliant
scholarship”—Oliver Soden, Literary Review
“Cole Porter was considered one of the greatest songwriters of his
time, and the originality, wit, and artistry, of both his music and
his lyrics, have lost none of their lustre in the ensuing
years. Yet his personal life has been clouded in mystery and
gossip, much of it exaggerated or simply untrue. This new book
offers the perfect solution: by reproducing a rich selection of
Porter's letters from across his life and activities, the editors
have allowed him to speak in his own words.”—Kevin Kline,
actor and singer
“‘Well, did you evah!’ Cole Porter’s letters are full not just of
delightful gossip but of the detail of working on Broadway and in
Hollywood during the golden age of the American musical. ‘What a
swell party it is!’—or at least was for Porter moving through high
society across several continents. His words read as gloriously as
his music sounds.”—Tim Carter, author of “Oklahoma!” The Making of
an American Musical
“The considerable legacy of Cole Porter remains a powerful force in
American music and this new collection of his letters is
revelatory. It’s the closest we’ll ever get to an autobiography and
is fascinating how a group of letters, sometimes written casually,
collectively unmask previously hidden details about the
man.”—Michael Feinstein, singer and Ambassador of The Great
American Songbook
“A magnificently researched, compulsively readable, and
delightfully “de-lovely” volume.”—Geoffrey Block, author of Richard
Rodgers
“Essential to understanding the private man behind the public
myths Porter himself so persistently perpetuated.”—Kim H.
Kowalke, editor of Speak Low: The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte
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