“Brooks has a command over both the colloquial and the more austere rhythms. . . . There is a range of form: quatrains, free verse, ballads, sonnets—all appropriately controlled.”—Rolfe Humphries, The New York Times Book Review
“[The] reporters are fearless, unpretentious, professional, vivid, and smart.” — The New Yorker
“[H]ere, after more than 200 years, is an easily accessible set of sacred writings for America’s civil religion—the adoration and veneration of the United States Constitution.” — Chicago Tribune
“Capacious, comprehensive, wide-ranging, and judiciously fair, the Library of America anthology presents the great body of American poetry in the century of the Louisiana Purchase, the Alamo, the Civil War, the expansion of the western…
“Rich in atmosphere, authentic in tone, and almost without exception very good stories. It was surprising to me that most Chinese ghosts are not villainous, but are actually the heroes who gave their lives out of duty and remain behind to…
“Perhaps the most provocative graphic storyteller of the twentieth century.”—Will Eisner
“If ever something was made to put a stop to all discussion of the only work you would want to have with you on a desert island, it is this two-volume set.” — The Washington Post
“It is a measure of how well they succeeded that, a half century later, the war comes alive again in these pages.” — The Washington Post