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"The Memory of All That" is a richly detailed autobiographical memoir in which Katharine Weber explores her family’s remarkable legacy. The narrative centers on her grandmother, Kay Swift, a pioneering composer who wrote the score for the hit Broadway show *Fine and Dandy* and who enjoyed a decade‑long romance with George Gershwin. Weber also chronicles her great‑grandfather, Paul M. Warburg, the financier credited with creating the Federal Reserve System and who inspired the character Annie’s Daddy Warbucks, as well as his reputation as the Cassandra of Wall Street who foresaw the 1929 crash. The book further delves into Weber’s eccentric father, a filmmaker who produced World War II OSS training and propaganda films and later ventured into the peculiar Aromarama movie line. Through these layered family histories, Weber considers how these intertwined tales of composition, finance, and film have shaped her own identity.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: Memoir/Family Memoir
Authors: Katharine Weber
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