Motown: The Sound of Young America

White (The Motown Story) has been writing about music for more than 40 years. Working with Motown founder Berry Gordy's right-hand man Ales, he delivers a lavishly illustrated, wonderfully written history of Motown. Although the music and personalities involved in the Motown story have been richly mined (readers looking for salaciousness can refer to books such as Gerald Posner's Motown and the biographies by J. Randy Taraborrelli, alternatives to Gordy's self-serving autobiography To Be Loved), this is balanced insider knowledge that greatly exceeds the others visually, packed as it is with fabulous photographs and album art that celebrates the record label that provided the soundtrack to exciting and changing times, and readers will treasure the deep dive into the era and the vast, firsthand information on Motown artists. Fans should be dancing in the streets.