"This may well be the best book on American radio ever written. Blue has captured the vividness of network radio in its golden era, meeting the crises of war with intelligence as well as drama (and comedy); and the now forgotten national tragedy of Cold War era crackdown on the very creators of the best programs. Radio has never recovered, and now we know the reasons."

Paul Buhle (Brown University: author of Popular Culture in America, Radical Hollywood, etc.)