   Add to Cart  Fever : The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee
The first major biography of the legendary singer--an
enthralling account of a charismatic artist moving through the
greatest, most glamorous era of American music  "I learned
courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, and Mr. Cary Grant." So
said Peggy Lee, the North Dakota girl who sang like she'd just
stepped out of Harlem. Einstein adored her; Duke Ellington
dubbed her "the Queen." With her platinum cool and inimitable
whisper she sold twenty million records, made more money than
Mickey Mantle, and along with pals Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby
presided over music's greatest generation. Yet beneath the
diamonds she was still Norma Delores Egstrom, insecure and
always looking for acceptance. Drawing on exclusive interviews
and new information, Peter Richmond delivers a complex,
compelling portrait of an artist and an era that begins with a
girl plagued by loss, her father's alcoholism, and her
stepmother's abuse. One day she gets on a train hoping her