An unprecedented collection of polemical and autobiographical writings by America s greatest composer-critic.Following on the critically acclaimed 2014 edition of Virgil Thomson's collected newspaper music criticism, The Library of America andPulitzer Prize winning music critic Tim Page now present Thomson s other literary and critical works, a body of writing that constitutes America s musical declaration of independence from the European past. This volume opens with The State of Music (1939), the book that made Thomson s name as a critic and won him his 14-year stint at the...

The book that sparked the modern environmental movement, with an unprecedented collection of letters, speeches, and other writings that reveal the extraordinary courage and vision of its author

This deluxe Library of America volume presents one of the landmark books of the twentieth century together with rare letters, speeches, and other writings that reveal the personal courage and passionate commitment of its author, Rachel Carson. A huge bestseller when published in September 1962, Silent Spring led not only to many of the laws and government agencies that protect...