PositiveThe Wall Street JournalThere’s not much new information here: Ms. Streisand is an exhaustively covered subject, not least by herself, and Mr. Gabler offers little biographical detail that can’t be found in the exhaustive liner notes of her mid-career compendium collection Just for the Record or her 2010 coffee-table book My Passion for Design, about the building of her vast Malibu estate, complete with an underground mall...Mr. Gabler is above all a fastidious historian, and his chief purpose is to describe and analyze Ms. Streisand’s meteoric rise. In his view, her trajectory applies to the evolution of American Jews themselves.
