Library Journal Review

This title follows last year's Audie Award-winning, New York Times best-selling collection of the same name. Both derive from the National Public Radio (NPR) show, which in turn derives from a 1950s Edward R. Murrow-hosted radio broadcast. Here, we again hear from a range of essayists (everyone from a diner waitress to former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright) about their personal credos. Five-time Peabody Award-winning broadcast journalist Jay Allison, host of the NPR show, introduces the readings, each of which, though unique in substance and delivery, manages to meld into a harmonious whole--no small feat in sound engineering. Enthusiastically recommended for libraries where the first title did well.--Raya Kuzyk, Library Journal (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.