“These four works . . . are tight, controlled, and incredibly effective both as a narration and experimental force.”—Damian Kelleher, Curled Up with a Good Book
“A must-read for anyone who loves noir.”—Sara Paretsky
“Susan Sontag’s essays are great interpretations, and even fulfillments, of what is really going on.”—Carlos Fuentes
“[W]hat a wholly delightful book! All the themes that are to dominate James’s work are already there—the clash of innocence and experience, the exquisite moral sensibility, the comedy of circumstance—but deployed with an unassumin…
“James Madison’s career represents a remarkable unity of theory and practice. With this volume, justice is done to the subtlest political thinker of America’s founding era—or of any other era.” — George Will
“Carlyle called it ‘the dismal science,’ but in the hands of John Kenneth Galbraith economics becomes a glittering branch of literature.”—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
“In Philip Marlowe, Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious—an innocent who knows better, a Romantic who is tough enough to sustain…