• Preface, with a Note on Sources and Acknowledgements


• 1. Suave Young Men: Creative Stirrings from Childhood through College


• 2. Wonders of Manhattan: Professional Beginnings in New York in the 1950s


• 3. Politics and Poker: The Body Beautiful and Fiorello! and the Late 1950s


• 4. Little Old New York: Tenderloin and the Early 1960s


• 5. To Broadway with Love: She Loves Me and the 1964 World's Fair


• 6. Tradition: Fiddler on the Roof


• 7. Here in Eden: The Mid-1960s and The Apple Tree


• 8. Have You Ever Seen a Prettier Little Congress?: The Late 1960s and The Rothschilds


• 9. Topsy Turvy: Separate Paths Since the Early 1970s


• Appendix A: Chronology of Bock and Harnick on Broadway


• Appendix B: Selected Media Resources


• Endnotes


• Selected Bibliography


• Index

Philip Lambert has published widely on twentieth-century music of diverse styles and traditions. His previous books are The Music of Charles Ives (1997), Ives Studies (1997), and Inside the Music of Brian Wilson (2007). He is Professor of Music at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

In fourteen years of collaboration, composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick wrote seven of Broadway's most beloved and memorable musicals together, most famously Fiddler on the Roof (1964), but also the enduring audience favorite She Loves Me (1963), and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiorello! (1959). With their charm, humor, and boundless musical invention, their musicals have won eighteen Tony Awards and continue to capture the imaginations of millions around the world.