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Justice to John P. Marquand

- Abstract

“When you are dead,” John P. Marquand once said, “you are very dead, intellectually and artistically.” Twenty-seven years after Marquand’s death, he is very dead indeed.



About the Author

Terry Teachout, COMMENTARY’s regular music critic and the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal, served as an editorial writer for the New York Daily News from 1987 to 1993. His "Rhythm Man: A Life of Louis Armstrong" is forthcoming next year from Harcourt.