Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story Book

Through the prism of the life of her father--lawyer and well-known political activist Bartley Crum--Patricia Bosworth sheds light on an important era in modern American history--from the heady, hope-filled days of Roosevelt's New Deal to the dawn of the Cold War. of photos.

A prominent activist lawyer of the 1930s and 1940s, Bartley Crum fell into disgrace and eventually committed suicide in the McCarthy era. This mesmerizing portrait by his daughter, acclaimed biographer Patricia Bosworth, offers an intimate, shocking, tragic work which embodies the spirit of a generation. 16 pp. of photos. 416 pp. National print ads. National author publicity. 25,000 print.