Going My Way: Bing Crosby and American Culture
- Editor: Prigozy, Ruth
- Editor: Raubicheck, Walter
These essays focus on the legendary performer in various media during [the years 1931-57]. . . This wide-ranging collection makes it clear that Crosby's importance is not and should never be... — More…
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Contents
- Introduction: Bing Crosby -- Nothing Is What It Seems - Gary Giddins
- Analogies of Ignorance in Going My Way - David E. White
- Going My Way?: Crosby and Catholicism on the Road to America - Eric Michael Mazur
- Saint Bing: Apatheia, Masculine Desire, and the Films of Bing Crosby - Elaine Anderson Phillips
- Bing on a Binge: Casting-Against-Type in The Country Girl - Linda A. Robinson
- Bing Crosby: Rock 'n' Roll Godfather - John Mark Dempsey
- American Archetypes: How Crosby and Hope Became Hollywood's Greatest Comedy Team - Walter Raubicheck
- Crosby at Paramount: From Crooner to Actor - Bernard F. Dick
- Bing Crosby, Walt Disney, and Ichabod Crane - M. Thomas Inge
- A Couple of Song and Dance Men: Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire - Jeanne Fuchs
- Rivalries: The Mutual Mentoring of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra - Samuel J. Chell
- From Crooner to American Icon: Caricatures of Bing Crosby in American Cartoons from the 1930s to the 1950s - Stephen C. Shafer
- Not Just "The Crooner": Bing Crosby's Research and Business Endeavors in World War II - Deborah Dolan
- Bing's Entertainment and War Bond Sales Activities During World War II - Malcolm Macfarlane
- Bing Crosby's Magnetic Tape Revolution - Peter Hammar and Martin McQuade
- The Bing Crosby Fan Clubs - F. B. (Wig) Wiggins
- Conclusion: Bing Crosby -- Architect of Twentieth-Century Style - Will Friedwald
- Sing, Bing, Sing - Kathryn Crosby
- Thoughts on Relationships: Father, Son, Grandson - Steven Crosby
- The Real Bing Crosby - Ken Barnes