title: The Ultimate Broadway Fake Book
author: Hal Leonard Corp.
description: Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard LLC has become the worlds largest print music publisher, representing some of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time. We are proud to publish titles of interest to all musicians as well as music lovers, from songbooks and instructional titles to artist biographies and instrument price guides to books about the music industry and all the performing arts.
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  Copyright © 2006 by Erik Larson
  
  
  Excerpt from _The Splendid and the Vile_ copyright © 2020 by Erik Larson All
  rights reserved.
  
  
  Published in the United States by Broadway Books, an imprint of the Crown
  Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
  
  
  [www.crownpublishing.com](http://www.crownpublishing.com)
  
  
  BROADWAY BOOKS and its logo, B \ D \ W \ Y, are trademarks of Penguin Random
  House LLC.
  
  
  Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Crown Publishers, an
  imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC,
  New York, in 2006, and subsequently published in paperback in the United
  States by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a
  division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2007.
  
  
  This book contains an excerpt from _Dead Wake_ by Erik Larson. This excerpt
  has been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final content of
  