"The Importance Of Being Barbra" is a consideration of one of the most unparalleled careers in the history of show business. Tom Santopietro chronicles every role and recording in a lifetime of work that has earned Streisand the title of best selling pop female vocalist of all time.With a winning style and encyclopaedic expertise he celebrates the career highlights in film, theatre, albums, concerts, and even politics without ignoring the bumps in her road to super-stardom.Streisand is America's greatest living diva, and only an aficionado such as Santopietro could offer such a canny, critical yet loving look at the ups, and downs of nearly forty years in the spotlight.