It takes the average reader 5 hours and 42 minutes to read Satchmo Blows Up the World by Penny VON ESCHEN
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth, from Iraq to India, from the Congo to the Soviet Union, in order to win the hearts and minds of the Third World and to counter perceptions of American racism. Penny Von Eschen escorts us across the globe, backstage and onstage, as Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and other jazz luminaries spread their music and...
Satchmo Blows Up the World by Penny VON ESCHEN is 341 pages long, and a total of 85,591 words.
This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 47 minutes to read Satchmo Blows Up the World aloud.
Satchmo Blows Up the World is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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