20 of the smartest nonfiction titles for summer reading

10. "What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years," by Ricky Riccardi

What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years, by Ricky Riccardi (Knopf Doubleday, 400 pp.)
Jazz pianist and academic Ricky Riccardi makes a lively argument that the last decades of the life of jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong were among his most dynamic and productive. (June)

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