Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In some ways it is easier to say what Hoagy Carmichael wasn't than to say what he was. He wasn't, like Irving Berlin or George Gershwin ...

Much of American culture in the 20th century contains a duality: a craving for the new, and a simultaneous yearning for an idealized past that maybe never was. Perhaps that's why the most popular and ...