Bing Crosby's innovations as recording artist, actor, businessman, and radio and television performer. A multidisciplinary exploration, plus personal testimony from family members and colleagues.

Ruth Prigozy, Walter Raubicheck

Introduction: Bing Crosby -- Nothing Is What It Seems - Gary Giddins
Analogies of Ignorance in Going My Way - David E. White
Going My Way?: Crosby and Catholicism on the Road to America - Eric Michael Mazur
Saint Bing: Apatheia, Masculine Desire, and the Films of Bing Crosby - Elaine Anderson Phillips
Bing on a Binge: Casting-Against-Type in The Country Girl - Linda A. Robinson
Bing Crosby: Rock 'n' Roll Godfather - John Mark Dempsey
American Archetypes: How Crosby and Hope Became Hollywood's Greatest Comedy Team - Walter Raubicheck
Crosby at Paramount: From Crooner to Actor - Bernard F. Dick
Bing Crosby, Walt Disney, and Ichabod Crane - M. Thomas Inge
A Couple of Song and Dance Men: Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire - Jeanne Fuchs
Rivalries: The Mutual Mentoring of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra - Samuel J. Chell
From Crooner to American Icon: Caricatures of Bing Crosby in American Cartoons from the 1930s to the 1950s - Stephen C. Shafer
Not Just "The Crooner": Bing Crosby's Research and Business Endeavors in World War II - Deborah Dolan
Bing's Entertainment and War Bond Sales Activities During World War II - Malcolm Macfarlane
Bing Crosby's Magnetic Tape Revolution - Peter Hammar and Martin McQuade
The Bing Crosby Fan Clubs - F. B. (Wig) Wiggins
Conclusion: Bing Crosby -- Architect of Twentieth-Century Style - Will Friedwald
Sing, Bing, Sing - Kathryn Crosby
Thoughts on Relationships: Father, Son, Grandson - Steven Crosby
The Real Bing Crosby - Ken Barnes