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The Book Review

The New York Times

Arts, Books

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Todd S. Purdum talks about “Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution,” and Fran Leadon discusses “Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles.”

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0:00.0	What made the team of Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein so magically successful?
0:10.4	Todd Perdom will be here to talk about his new book, Something Wonderful.
0:14.4	How do you tell the history of a city through the story of a single street?
0:18.3	Fran Leiden joins us to talk about his new book, Broadway, A History of New York City in 13
0:23.4	Miles.
0:24.4	Alexander Alta will give us an update from the publishing world.
0:26.8	Plus, our critics' Dwight Garner, Carl Segel, and Jen Salai will join us to talk about
0:30.8	the latest in literary criticism.
0:33.1	This is Inside the New York Times Booker View.
0:34.8	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:40.3	Todd Perdom joins us now.
0:41.3	He is a senior writer for Politico and a contributor to Vanity Fair and the author of a new
0:47.0	book, Something Wonderful.
0:48.8	Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution.
0:51.6	Todd, thanks for being here.
0:52.6	Pleasure to be here.
0:53.6	Thank you.
0:54.6	Great time for this book, Tony Award season, and of course, Carousel in Revival.
1:00.2	Yes, I wish I could have anticipated that.
1:02.3	The book, we came up with the idea about three and a half years ago, we had no idea that
1:05.4	there would be this revival.
1:06.9	It's also turned out to be a great time for the book for me because it's been a kind of
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