The Road to Comedy: The Films of Bob Hope - Donald W. McCaffrey - Google Books

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Although Bob Hope has been the subject of many biographies, no book yet has fully explored the comic persona he created in vaudeville and radio, brought to fruition in dozens of films from the 1930s through the 1960s, and made a lasting influence on…