“…These works are distinguished by Parkman’s vigorous and resourceful prose, alive with ingenious figurative language and resonant description. His method is basically novelistic: he renders specific dramatic scenes,…
“[H]istorians and students will find Reporting Vietnam to be a rich and handy reference. For others, it will be—with 25—plus years of hindsight—simply fascinating reading. Some of it may bring a tear. Bits of it may cause a…
“A thrilling book. Here at last is the living portrait of Lincoln that has eluded photographers and painters for 200 years. Only this great chorus of poets and playwrights, novelists and essayists, historians and statesmen could capture the…
“A gifted reporter and writer, Cornelius Ryan set the standard for telling war stories that fly by like the best novels. Any reader seeking both the broad strokes of military strategy and the gritty, surprising, inspiring, and often terrible…
“Reading across these 800-odd pages of Leopold’s writings—hunting journals (with accompanying sketch-maps and photographs); letters; essays; lectures and fragments of memoir, all superbly selected and annotated by Curt Meine—you watch the fle…
“Conventional wisdom says that the voices of peace are inevitably drowned out by the trumpets of war, but this volume suggests otherwise. . . . The voices in this book, a replying chorus of hope, insist that change is possible.”—James Carroll…
“The most American of American movie critics … James Agee enters The Library of America as a twofer—and, in what seems like an LOA first, one volume is devoted to his ‘film writing.’” — The Village…
“The stories [are] tense, elegiac, remorseless in their insistence on the past’s dominion over the present. . . . As compactly and tightly written as prose poems.” —Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review