{ "item_title" : "My Name is Barbra", "item_author" : [" Barbra Streisand "], "item_description" : "The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television. Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major motion picture. In My Name Is Barbra, she tells her own story about her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in New York nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl (musical and film) to the long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed. The book is, like Barbra herself, frank, funny, opinionated, and charming. She recounts her early struggles to become an actress, eventually turning to singing to earn a living; the recording of some of her acclaimed albums; the years of effort involved in making Yentl; her direction of The Prince of Tides; her friendships with figures ranging from Marlon Brando to Madeleine Albright; her political advocacy; and the fulfillment she’s found in her marriage to James Brolin.No entertainer’s memoir has been more anticipated than Barbra Streisand’s, and this engrossing and delightful book will be eagerly welcomed by her millions of fans. From Terrance G Finley, Books-A-Million CEO: The VoiceIt should come as no surprise that Barbra Streisand’s 966 page autobiography is suffused with that unmistakable and unparalleled voice. Honest, authentic, and a little distant. A masterclass in the arts of filmmaking, acting, songwriting and performance. Professor Streisand is in the house and has some lessons she wants to impart. The output of her 7 decade career provides the broad outline for a life story fueled by enormous natural gifts, innate intelligence and a relentless drive to reconcile the emotional traumas associated with a missing father and mother’s love withheld. Those of us who have followed, cheered, cringed and celebrated alongside Barbra will find an extraordinary cast of characters; family, artists, collaborators, lovers, politicians and villains who reflect the cultural touch points of our generation. Starting with the early days at the Bon Soir in Greenwich Village to Funny Girl, the over 50 album output generated since is breathtaking in scale. Lovingly revisited in incredible detail and leavened with equal amounts of pride and the desire to get it right, make it better. The film career is the dominant formative and defining personal and professional quest of Barbra’s long career and much of the story here is told through the exposition of those movies. Sometimes frame by frame. The key relationships in Barbra’s life develop and unfold alongside her passion for pursuing her art. And they suffer or blossom in equal measure. The journey includes a series of respectful and mostly admiring, if mind boggling, collaborations. Sinatra, Elvis, Sondheim, Sharif, Redford, Kristofferson, Clinton, Clinton, Obama. Surrogate fathers, chosen mothers and fierce protectors are consistent players. And in the end it is Jim, their 24 year marriage and the relationship with her son Jason that offers a calming and hopeful backdrop to her current chapter. I doubt she is finished creating. I certainly hope not. Terrance G FinleyBarbra Streisand is an American singer, actress, director and producer and one of the most iconic figures in music and film, the only recording artist in history to have earned #1 albums over six consecutive decades. She has received the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the Kennedy Center Honor, the National Medal of Arts, France’s Légion d’Honneur, and America’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She founded The Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai, helping to raise awareness and push for more research into women’s heart disease, the leading cause of death among women. Through the Streisand Foundation, which she established in 1986, she has supported national organizations working on preservation of the environment, voter education, the protection of civil liberties and civil rights, women’s issues, and nuclear disarmament. In 2021 she launched the Barbra Streisand Institute at UCLA, a forward-thinking institution dedicated to finding solutions to the most vital social issues.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/52/542/952/0525429522_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "47.00", "online_price" : "47.00", "our_price" : "47.00", "club_price" : "47.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "47.00" } }

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