A Walk in the Fire

John Sanford once again juxtaposes reminiscence with documentary material–not only brief, lyrical bio-vignettes on earlier American heroes and heroines, but also excerpts from personal letters, diaries and transcripts of court testimony–to build an impressive mosaic of the past, giving back full multi-dimensional vividness to history by returning it to the intimate field of experience, registered through his unique prose construction that elusive quality of vanished time which he himself has aptly termed “the color of the air.”