It takes the average reader 9 hours and 49 minutes to read Louis Armstrong by Laurence Bergreen
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Louis Armstrong was the founding father of jazz and one of this century's towering cultural figures, yet the full story of his extravagant life has never been told. Born in 1901 to the sixteen-year-old daughter of a slave, he came of age among the prostitutes, pimps, and rag-and-bone merchants of New Orleans. He married four times and enjoyed countless romantic involvements in and around his marriages. A believer in marijuana for the head and laxatives for the bowels, he was also a prolific diarist and correspondent, a devoted friend to celebrities from Bing Crosby to Ella Fitzgerald, a...
Louis Armstrong by Laurence Bergreen is 576 pages long, and a total of 147,456 words.
This makes it 194% the length of the average book. It also has 180% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 25 minutes to read Louis Armstrong aloud.
Louis Armstrong is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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