{"product_id":"the-man-that-got-away","title":"The Man That Got Away","description":"\"Over the Rainbow,\" \"Stormy Weather,\" and \"One for My Baby\" are just a few of Harold Arlen's well-loved compositions. Yet his name is hardly known--except to the musicians who venerate him. At a gathering of songwriters George Gershwin called him \"the best of us.\" Irving Berlin agreed. Paul McCartney sent him a fan letter and became his publisher. Bob Dylan wrote of his fascination with Arlen's \"bittersweet, lonely world.\" \u003cp\u003eA cantor's son, Arlen believed his music was from a place outside himself, a place that also sent tragedy. When his wife became mentally ill and was institutionalized he turned to alcohol. It nearly killed him. But the beautiful songs kept coming: \"Blues in the Night,\" \"My Shining Hour,\" \"Come Rain or Come Shine,\" and \"The Man That Got Away.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalter Rimler drew on interviews with friends and associates of Arlen and on newly available archives to write this intimate portrait of a genius whose work is a pillar of the Great American Songbook.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Walter Rimler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53614292599164,"sku":"9780252039461","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780252039461_eb8c8735-d09c-4ef7-a514-542e4546d529.jpg?v=1729068316","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-man-that-got-away","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}