"The Myth of Ephraim Tutt" writer Manning explores how profoundly soldiers during World War II were affected by the books they were sent during combat and how the program in which 120 million paperbacks were sent to soldiers by the War Department brought F. Scott Fitzgerald and "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" author Betty Smith, among others, to popularity. "Obviously we're book lovers and it's about the power of books," says Nelson.
