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“The book is compendious and revelatory, a statement of the man in his own words, and I found myself knowing my father in new ways through these letters.”

These works don’t attempt to replace the compendious authority of traditional biography but, rather, enter into dialogue with it by reflecting more on some facts in a life and its work than on others.

Sony’s new set is one of the most compendious efforts at archival excavation that the major labels have yet offered.

In this compendious book Newkirk, the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and Stone, an author and co-author of numerous titles, have separate but closely related agendas.

Michael Kinch’s The End of the Beginning gives an account both personal and compendious.