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    "description": "<p>Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personlality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a life of Byronic intensity - passionate, risk-taking, and convention-breaking. In November 1989, just a year before his death, Bernstein invited writer Jonathan Cott to his countryhome in Fairland, Connecticut, for what was to be his last major interview. In Dinner with Lenny, Cott provides a complete account of this remarkable twelve-hour conversation in which Bernstein - vodka glass in hand and cigarette alight - holds forth with disarming frankness, humor, and intensity on matters musical, pedagogical, political, psychological, spiritual, and unabashedly personal. Dinner with Lenny gives us a unique, you-are-there perspective on this most inspiring American dynamo.</p>",
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