It takes the average reader 4 hours and 38 minutes to read You Can't Steal a Gift by Gene Lees
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
You Can?t Steal a Gift is about the impact of American racism on America?s greatest gift to the world of music?jazz. In a work that combines memoir, oral history, and commentary, Gene Lees has crafted minibiographies of four great black musicians whom he knew well?Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Milt Hinton, and Nat ?King? Cole. Lees writes of them, ?All are men who had every reason to embrace bitterness . . . and didn?t.? When Lees left Montreal to become the music and drama critic of the Louisville Times in 1955, he was shocked by the racism and segregation he found in the United States. In...
You Can't Steal a Gift by Gene Lees is 269 pages long, and a total of 69,671 words.
This makes it 91% the length of the average book. It also has 85% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 20 minutes to read You Can't Steal a Gift aloud.
You Can't Steal a Gift is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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