The Library Of Congress And All That Jazz

Portrait Of Billie Holiday, For DownBeat Magazine, ca. 1947.(Photo by William P. Gottlieb, Courtesy of the Library of Congress.)Call it chance, fate, destiny, or kismet. Often sheer luck--good or bad--determines the shape of our lives. Eighteenth century poet and philosopher Johann Friedrich Von Schiller believed that "what seems to us mere accident springs from the deepest source of destiny ...