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Entertainment Divas, Cabaret, Jazz Then and Now: Including World's Who's Who of the Greatest Female Singers of All Time. America's Ultimate Divas. ... Spirituals from the 17th Century to Present.

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Potentially an interesting book but very poorly presented for the price. I don't think I've read a book before which has so many misprints. The worst example - "Eddie Gomet" (for Eydie Gorme). Naturally, I bought the English language version.I presume there is a French version as the author is French. No translator is credited and virtually none of the misprints can be blamed on linguistic misunderstanding. Any proof reader that may have been employed was apparently extremely poorly qualified for the job. The book runs to 694 pages and could have been shorter by half. I started to tire of it by the halfway mark. I may be missing the point (perhaps the work is intended for academics), but it seems the author couldn't make up his mind whether to write a narrative or an encyclopaedia. The publishers have a nerve to set such a high retail price on this book, in this presentation.