Famous Father Girl: A Memoir Of Growing Up Bernstein

"Jamie Bernstein’s courageous and frank account of family life under the massive shadow of her father, Leonard Bernstein, is a bulk load of dirty laundry, lovingly unfolded. Yet amid the scandals – from Black Panther fundraisers to Lenny’s emerging homosexuality – we discover a surprisingly standard family, struggling with careers, fears, affairs, unfulfilled dreams and a mother’s ghastly battle lost to cancer. Through Jamie’s eyes and her fluid writing style, the memoir offers an insider’s view of the legendary conductor-composer and his first-born daughter who labored, sometimes bitterly, but finally found herself."