Product Description: The American experience—from its colonial beginnings to the modern age—has captured the imagination of all Americans, including its artists. This richly illustrated book explores works from the renowned collections of American paintings, decorative arts, prints, and photographs at the Yale University Art Gallery and creates a vivid portrait of a young country defining itself culturally, politically, and geographically...read more

Selections of the artist's book cover artwork are combined with commentary from authors and publishers on the relationship between a book's cover and its contents

Eye-witness accounts augment a pictorial history of World War II at both the battlefronts and at home