Louis Armstrong was the greatest jazz musician of the 20th century and a giant of modern American culture. Terry Teachout, the Wall Street Journal drama critic and arts columnist, has drawn on a cache of important new sources to craft a sweeping narrative biography of this towering figure. Pops points a gripping portrait of the man, his world, and his music.
Terry Teachout is the author of All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine, The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken, and A Terry Teachout Reader. He blogs about the arts at www.terryteachout.com.
