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"""[Tye] has a keen gift for narrative storytelling and an ability to depict his subject with almost novelistic emotional detail."" -- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, on Bobby Kennedy ""Tye captures 'Low Blow Joe' in all his shambolic ingloriousness . . . The result is an epic expose that . . . will leave [readers] shaking their heads over the rise and fall of the greatest demagogue in American history, with the possible exception of the current White House incumbent."" -- Boston Globe, on Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy ""Rescuing an icon from the edge of oblivion is no easy task; making room for him in the collective memory is harder still. But revealing his profound influence on our social and cultural institutions today requires insight and imagination. Larry Tye has both."" -- San Francisco Chronicle, on Rising from the Rails: The Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class ""[Mr. Tye] succeeds wonderfully in illustrating the often creepy power of our opinion makers."" -- New York Times, on The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations ""Knowing Satchel Paige is knowing nobody like him. This is a superb book about an outstanding man."" -- Yogi Berra on Satchel"

"""Tye brings his subjects to life as both forces of social change and three-dimensional human beings who lived and breathed their art, from Ellington's soulful, 'Shakespearian' arrangements to Armstrong's 'heart as big as Earth' and Basie's 'Buddha-like' temperament. It's a vibrant ode to a legendary trio and the 'rip-roaring harmonies' that made them great."" -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) ""Like the best music created by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie, The Jazzmen SWINGS. As Tye makes clear, their story is the story of America in the twentieth century."" -- RICKY RICCARDI, Grammy Award-winning author of What a Wonderful World and Heart Full of Rhythm ""The Jazzmen begins with colorful people and flows to rich history so beautifully it is musical."" -- JUAN WILLIAMS, author of Eyes on the Prize ""Proud and important history, beautifully told."" -- DEVAL PATRICK, former governor of Massachusetts, assistant attorney general for civil rights under Bill Clinton ""The Jazzmen reveals how these three musicians, when they express themselves through their instruments, become magical."" -- MERCEDES ELLINGTON, dancer, choreographer, and Duke's granddaughter ""Larry Tye has written a masterpiece. These three are not only the most important people in American music, but they changed the whole world in their individual ways."" -- WENDELL BRUNIOUS, New Orleans bandleader and trumpeter ""The Jazzmen tells an uplifting and unifying story that is especially important now, when times are so fractured."" -- SONNY ROLLINS, Grammy Award-winning tenor saxophonist ""Entertaining and engrossing, and a warm invitation to an essential part of American history."" -- TRACY KIDDER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ""I thought I was already well-informed about these jazz heroes, but Larry Tye reveals so much more about their musical journeys and personal experiences. It's like meeting them all over again. I couldn't put it down."" -- GARY BURTON, Grammy Award-winning jazz vibraphonist ""Tye has found that there are new things to say about The Three Musketeers of Jazz. Read, learn, and enjoy."" -- DAN MORGENSTERN, jazz author, historian, editor, educator, and former director of the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies"

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Larry Tye is the New York Times bestselling author of Bobby Kennedy and Satchel, as well as Demagogue, Superman, The Father of Spin, Home Lands, and Rising from the Rails, and coauthor, with Kitty Dukakis, of Shock. Previously an award-winning reporter at the Boston Globe and a Nieman fellow at Harvard University, he now runs the Boston-based Health Coverage Fellowship. He lives on Cape Cod.

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