Ragtime developed as a popular musical style at the end of the 19th Century. It has its origins in the saloon bars and dance halls of African-American communities. Ragtime music was written down ...

Just in time for ... a 50-year-old tale of robber barons, racists, corrupt officials, and other denizens of America. (The annotated opening pages of our reviewer’s copy of “Ragtime," a 2007 ...