The Calm in the Storm
Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years 1940-1946
By Gary Giddins, Little, Brown and Company, $40
EVERY JOHNSON NEEDS A BOSWELL TO MAKE HIS CASE FOR posterity, and Bing Crosby is privileged to have jazz critic and historian Gary Giddins as his definitive chronicler. Giddins’s 2001 tome pledged over 700 pages to the crooner’s beginnings,
