Norman Rockwell’s images can be found everywhere – I grew up with a big fat coffee table book called “Norman Rockwell’s America.” His images – such as “Freedom from Want,” “Rosie the Riveter,” “Gone Fishin’,” “The Shiner,” and of course “The Problem We All Live With” are almost universally familiar. In reading Ms. Solomon’s new biography of Rockwell you see that when he painted Americans - predominantly white Americans, it must be said - he was portraying us not as we were but as we could be or most want to be. However, we feel about it now, Norman Rockwell’s work is a fundamental part of our cultural DNA, and Ms. Solomon’s superb book gives us a superb analysis of this American icon.