Kent, Herb

The cool gent the nine lives of radio legend Herb Kent / [electronic resource] : Herb Kent and David Smallwood ; foreword by Mayor Richard M. Daley. - Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, c2009 - 1 online resource (xvii, 302 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill.

Includes index Description based on print version record

1928 -- Developing an on-air style -- The black giant -- Theater of the mind on radio -- Tales from the cool school -- About fame and celebrity -- Hitting rock botton -- Redemption -- Back to the future -- Looking back on a long road


Mode of access: Internet

9781569762523 (electronic bk.) 156976252X (electronic bk.) 9781556527746 (hardcover) 1556527748 (hardcover)


African American disc jockeys--Biography
African-American disc jockeys
Kent, Herb