Daniel J. Boorstin on Louis L'Amour

“Louis gives us a lesson — too seldom offered by academic or professional critics — in open-mindedness and literary charity. And he encourages us, too, to become Wandering Readers, joining his search for the joys and surprises in the pages of books.”

“Louis was a modest man, slow to reveal what he really knew. While many of us are tempted to pretend to have read what we think we should have read, Louis was not that way. For most of us Mark Twain's definition of a classic — "a book which people praise and don’t read" — is accurate enough. But certainly not for Louis. … He had a natural preference tor books that had stood the test of time.”