The Biggest Thing in Show Business

<p><b>A freewheeling nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956.</b></p><p>From 1946 to 1956 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis provoked audiences into rollicking laughter as they shook up and delighted a culture they both mediated and made fun of. Using the duo's phenomenal popularity as a starting point <i>The Biggest Thing in Show Business</i> looks askance at postwar America with a fast-moving sweep jam-packed with unexpected connections revealing details and surprising insights. Aiming to be as unconventional as their subjects Murray Pomerance and Matthew Solomon enact a highly spontaneous and up-to-the-minute approach to coauthorship that re-establishes the importance of Martin & Lewis in the cultural pantheon. As a result the book's structure methodology and writing style are thoroughly dialogic and firmly opposed to stale convention.</p>