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Covering the years of 1927 to 1936, the author describes how the example of his friend, Nathanael West, convinced him, then a law clerk, to become a writer.

John Sanford once again juxtaposes reminiscence with documentary material¿not only brief, lyrical bio-vignettes on earlier American heroes and heroines, but also excerpts from personal letters, diaries and transcripts of court testimony¿to build an impressive mosaic of the past, giving back full multi-dimensional vividness to history by returning it to the intimate field of experience, registered through his unique prose construction method: that elusive quality of vanished time which he himself has aptly termed ¿the color of the air.¿

This volume of John Sanford's autobiography begins on November 21, 1951, when he and his wife, Marguerite Roberts, began a 9-year period on the blacklist.John Sanford juxtaposes reminiscence with documentary material on earlier American heroes and heroines to build an impressive mosaic of the past, giving back full multi-dimensional vividness to history by returning it to the intimate field of experience, registered through his unique prose construction method: that elusive quality of vanished time which he himself has aptly termed ¿the color of the air.¿