Selection of the hundreds of letters the author received in response to a newspaper editorial asking people to write about the importance of books in their live

Whitman's famous poem, accompanied by linoleum-cut illustrations, depicts people at work all over an earlier America.

Focuses on the life and musical career of the composer who wrote a number of popular musicals and brought jazz into the realm of acceptable and respectable musi

“Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year In the most ambitious one-volume A

A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: “Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking.” —The Boston Globe A