One of the great narrators, Arthur Morey takes the simple beauty of White’s well-wrought words and delivers them eloquently. John Meacham’s introduction to this essay collection is a love song to the excellence of the author’s achievement. The title piece exemplifies this happy meeting of writer and narrator. Morey’s tone, tempo, and style are pitch perfect for White, who lucidly enumerates those elemental matters that make a democracy—from the letter to the editor to waiting until the bell sounds before fighting. In short, pithy essays White takes on the bigoted (the House Un-American Activities Committee) and the boorish (America Firsters). White’s wit is ever present, and Morey artfully captures his plainspoken humor. Few have put prose to better use. A.D.M. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, 2019 Best Audiobook © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

For democracy’s weary champions, White’s time-tested prose is a shot of adrenaline.” — Madeleine Albright

“The essayist and children’s book author White (best known for “Charlotte’s Web”) also thought eloquently about democracy and its demands, as this anthology shows.” — New York Times Book Review

“These pieces hold up well…The best thing about White’s essays on democracy, though, is the author’s simple honesty.” — Wall Street Journal

“[White’s essays] endure as exemplars of the form. White was a master of conversational prose, excelling at sentences that seem perfectly balanced. To read his work is to feel balanced too.” — Christian Science Monitor

“Admirers of White, as well as students of democracy, will find a wide range of riches within these pages.” — Columbus Dispatch

“This America: The Case for the Nation by historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore is a repudiation of the nationalism — white and otherwise — that has raised its ugly head in recent years. On Democracy, by the great E.B. White, can be read almost as a companion volume even though it came out in 1947.” — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Some of the finest examples of contemporary, genuinely American prose. White’s style incorporates eloquence without affection, profundity without pomposity, and wit without frivolity or hostility. Like his predecessors Thoreau and Twain, White’s creative, humane, and graceful perceptions are an education for the sensibilities.” — Washington Post on Essays of E.B. White

“[E. B. White] had a knack for describing in the plainest detail what it meant to be alive... We all know White for the light his approach threw upon the animal kingdom. As these letters prove, he extended that grace to humans, too.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Letters of E.B. White

“[E. B. White] had a knack for describing in the plainest detail what it meant to be alive... We all know White for the light his approach threw upon the animal kingdom. As these letters prove, he extended that grace to humans, too.” — Philadelphia Inquirer on Letters of E.B. White

“Anything written by E.B. White must be cherished by writers and readers.” — New York Times on Writings from The New Yorker 1925-1976

“[E. B. White’s] essays, his letters, his quips and his squibs are simply beautiful... The essays show him to have an eloquent and lifelong devotion for freedoms, the letters an eloquent and lifelong devotion to friends.” — Louisville Courier Journal on Letters of E.B. White

“My heart is at his feet. Time spent in his company—for that is what reading his letters is—will improve anyone’s view of the universe.” — Washington Star on Letters of E.B. White

This America: The Case for the Nation by historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore is a repudiation of the nationalism — white and otherwise — that has raised its ugly head in recent years. On Democracy, by the great E.B. White, can be read almost as a companion volume even though it came out in 1947.

The essayist and children’s book author White (best known for “Charlotte’s Web”) also thought eloquently about democracy and its demands, as this anthology shows.

These pieces hold up well…The best thing about White’s essays on democracy, though, is the author’s simple honesty.

[E. B. White] had a knack for describing in the plainest detail what it meant to be alive... We all know White for the light his approach threw upon the animal kingdom. As these letters prove, he extended that grace to humans, too.

[E. B. White] had a knack for describing in the plainest detail what it meant to be alive... We all know White for the light his approach threw upon the animal kingdom. As these letters prove, he extended that grace to humans, too.

Anything written by E.B. White must be cherished by writers and readers.

Admirers of White, as well as students of democracy, will find a wide range of riches within these pages.

[White’s essays] endure as exemplars of the form. White was a master of conversational prose, excelling at sentences that seem perfectly balanced. To read his work is to feel balanced too.

For democracy’s weary champions, White’s time-tested prose is a shot of adrenaline.

Some of the finest examples of contemporary, genuinely American prose. White’s style incorporates eloquence without affection, profundity without pomposity, and wit without frivolity or hostility. Like his predecessors Thoreau and Twain, White’s creative, humane, and graceful perceptions are an education for the sensibilities.

One of the great narrators, Arthur Morey takes the simple beauty of White’s well-wrought words and delivers them eloquently. John Meacham’s introduction to this essay collection is a love song to the excellence of the author’s achievement. The title piece exemplifies this happy meeting of writer and narrator. Morey’s tone, tempo, and style are pitch perfect for White, who lucidly enumerates those elemental matters that make a democracy—from the letter to the editor to waiting until the bell sounds before fighting. In short, pithy essays White takes on the bigoted (the House Un-American Activities Committee) and the boorish (America Firsters). White’s wit is ever present, and Morey artfully captures his plainspoken humor. Few have put prose to better use. A.D.M. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, 2019 Best Audiobook © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine