This volume forms part of the "Life and Times" series of compact andccessible biographies which cover key political, literary and musicaligures.;This title is about the life and work of American composer Georgeershwin (1898-1937). Gershwin was the brige between serious music and lightntertainment, the creator of "Rhapsody in Blue", "Porgy and Bess" and "Anmerican in Paris". The book evokes the pace and colour of New York in the920s and 1930s and places Gershwin at the centre of the Jazz Age. His riserom a talented son of Russian-Jewish immigrants on Manhattan's Lower Eastide to his unassailable position as the leading composer of his time makesershwin the embodiment of the American dream.