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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: George Roy Hill, Cole Porter, Garry Trudeau, Benjamin Spock, A. Bartlett Giamatti, Dean Acheson, Cyrus Vance, Bobby Shriver, John Lindsay, Sargent Shriver, Robert R. McCormick, Fareed Zakaria, Paul Mellon, William Christian Bullitt, Jr., Harvey Williams Cushing, William Adams Delano, John Hay Whitney, Fred Dubois, Louis Auchincloss, Robert F. Wagner, Jr., Dickinson W. Richards, James Gamble Rogers, Cord Meyer, John Franklin Enders, Calvin Trillin, Austin Pendleton, Warren Zimmermann, Philip Proctor, George Shiras, Jr., John Dalzell, Huntington D. Sheldon, Alexandra Robbins, James Stillman Rockefeller, Walter B. Chambers, Theodore Runyon, Edward Salisbury Dana, Stone Phillips, Charles Sterling Bunnell, H. C. Potter, Newbold Morris, Richard Pearce, Frank Polk, Gideon Rose, Allen Wardwell, John Sterling Rockefeller, Emory Clark. Excerpt: Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 - October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre. After a slow start, he began to achieve success in the 1920s, and by the 1930s he was one of the major songwriters for the Broadway musical stage. Unlike most successful Broadway composers, Porter wrote both the lyrics and the music for his songs. After a serious horseback riding accident in 1937, Porter was left disabled and in constant pain, but he continued to work. His shows of the early 1940s did not contain the lasting hits of his best work of the 1920s and 30s, but in 1947 he made a triumphant comeback with his most successful musical, Kiss Me, Kate. Porter's other musicals include Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady, Anything Goes and Can-Can, and his numerous hit songs include "Night and Day," "I ...
