Author Description

All the excitement of Broadway during the glory days of the Great White Way comes to life in Tales of a Broadway Flack, David A. Long's engrossing new biography about Sol Jacobson, press agent for some of Broadway's most memorable shows and legendary performers, from Desi Arnaz and Eddie Bracken (Too Many Girls, 1939), Boris Karloff (Arsenic and Old Lace, 1941), Tallulah Bankhead (The Skin of Our Teeth, 1942), to Zero Mostel (Fiddler on the Roof, 1964) with a plethora of shows in between. If you love the theater and enjoy a good story, you'll want to read this book.