{"product_id":"9780061866067","title":"Dream Lucky: When FDR was in the White House, Count Basie was on the radio, and everyone wore a hat...","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe time: 1936-1938. The mood: Hopeful. It wasn't wartime, not yet. The music: The incomparable Count Basie and Benny Goodman, among others. The setting: Living rooms across America and, most of all, New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDream Lucky covers politics, race, religion, arts, and sports, but the central focus is the period's soundtrack-specifically big band jazz-and the big-hearted piano player William \"Count\" Basie. His ascent is the narrative thread of the book-how he made it and what made his music different from the rest. But many other stories weave in and out: Amelia Earhart pursues her dream of flying \"around the world at its waistline.\" Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., stages a boycott on 125th Street. And Mae West shocks radio listeners as a naked Eve tempting the snake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritic Nat Hentoff praises the \"precise originality\" with which Roxane Orgill writes about music. In Dream Lucky, she magically lets readers hear the past. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46532978868465,"sku":"9780061866067","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9780061866067_p0.jpg?v=1765791371","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061866067","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}