"His is the voice of sanity amid the braying of jackals. He combines the cool lucidity of a Montaigne with the gusto of a pushcart peddler." (The New York Post.)

First published in 1959, and with a foreword by Carl Sandburg.

"Here is America's favorite humorist _on Shakespeare and silent movies, Ty Cobb and the days when opera was still grand, the sad demise of the Great American Novel and "America _a sexual Sahara?"

Sent to the winner of the May UK SMile Day Sweepstakes, with a "little extra something". Congrats, I hope you'll like this "oldie"! :)

Thank you very much.

Placed in the phone box library