"Guitars" celebrates the entire world of guitars (the acoustics, electrics, steel string, classical, jazz, novelty) along with their innovators and players--the folk heroes, rock stars, jazz legends, and blues players. Guitars are objects of passion and seduction, holding out the promise "play me, possess me, I'll make you the coolest guitarist around." Even their names are evocative--the Rickenbacker Frying Pan, the Stratocaster, Humbucker, Cyclone Fender, Les Paul Gibson, B. B. King's Lucille, D'Angelico's New Yorker. Guitars have personalities, individual styles, and voices, and Schiller brings them alive in chapters that relate their soul ("The People's Instrument"), their magic ("That Tone"), their evolution ("Louder"), and their place in our personal and collective cultural history ("The American Icon, 25 Guitars that Changed History"). With features on legendary designers (Martin, Fender, Gibson) and guitar heroes like Jimmy Hendrix, B. B. King, Andre Segovia, Robert Johnson, Django Reinhardt, Maybelle Carter, Charlie Christian.