Louis Armstrong

Louis ArmstrongBy: Laurence Bergreen 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

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