An American Dream, Realized

An eloquently vibrant account of life in the first half of the twentieth century, and a true love story. Henry Freeman grew up in the seedy tenements of New York City in the 1910s and '20s. His father, a trumpeter who had played for John Philip Sousa, made his living playing for the silent pictures and vaudeville theatres and was for a time blackballed by the New York musicians union for helping to organize a strike. Harry Freeman, the father, however, soon won a position as the first professor