I really loved this memoir and it made me cry on the train, which is quite an achievement given how much I hate crying in public transit. I had never heard of Eddie Cantor before I picked this up randomly in a used bookstore due to the cover, but his dedication to charity fundraising and his kind nature come through very strongly in this book. He had raised over $280 million for charity at the time he wrote this (1957), which given inflation is just […]
“Eddie, if you’d never done anything but this, I’d be proud all my life.”
Take My Life by Eddie Cantor with Jane Kesner Ardmore
