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In the years after World War I, Robert Truesdell never spoke of his war experience, but he wrote more than 100 letters to his parents describing the details of his life in the service. The letters span a period of time starting with his arrival in the Fall of 1917 at Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina and concluding with his participation in the Victory March up Fifth Avenue in New York City in 1919. After Truesdell's death, his daughter discovered the letters and carefully transcribed each one. The letters are accompanied by commentary on World War I prior to U.S. involvement and on significant national and international political and military events during the months when the United States fought with the Allies. The informative commentary places Truesdell's personal correspondence into a much greater historical context.

From logos of some of the most common American brands, to film posters and opening-credit sequences, to the architectural design of one of the most seemingly mundane retail spaces in American life, Saul Bass's work and that which he inspired is all around us. In Thinking Made Visible: Movement, Narrative, and the Work of Saul Bass, Jacob Dickerson focuses primarily on Bass's poster designs for films such as The Man with the Golden Arm and corporations like AT&T. Dickerson also examines Bass's original documentary films on innovation and solar power as well as his designs for Exxon and BP service stations. The emphasis is on Bass's consistent use of motifs such as images of hands and suns, arguing for a hopeful and humanitarian interpretation of his work. Dickerson also explores the role of space-both visual and physical-and how Bass created a sense of motion to tell stories even within a single still image.