“These speeches are part of our national heritage, just as much as our Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They should be studied and celebrated!” — President Bill Clinton
“Its influence may have been as great as that of his Gifford Lectures, published 14 years later; for of all his writings, Leaves has had the widest reading.”—Christian Century
“What amazed me was not what he said, but how on earth anybody had the courage to say it.”—Richard Wright
“What this volume ultimately tells us is that Dick was not a science fiction writer, but instead he was our writer. Some science fiction readers have chided him for valuing the fiction over the science, and he certainly did not write…
“Moments . . . make you say ‘Wait a minute, let me go back and read that again,’ are everywhere in The Top of His Game, a 569-page anthology of Mr. Heinz’s work as a sportswriter. . . . If you are looking for the sounds, the feel, th…
“For those of us who are still able to read novels for pleasure, this is a marvelous book.” — Gore Vidal, The New York Review of Books