One Summer: America, 1927 - Paperback
by Bill Bryson
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780767919418ISBN-10:767919416UPC:9780767919418Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Social History, Popular CultureBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC3QSBD326
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A GoodReads Reader's Choice The summer of 1927 began with Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Babe Ruth was closing in on the home run record. In Newark, New Jersey, Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly sat atop a flagpole for twelve days, and in Chicago, the gangster Al Capone was tightening his grip on bootlegging. The first true "talking picture," Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer, was filmed, forever changing the motion picture industry.
All this and much, much more transpired in the year Americans attempted and accomplished outsized things--and when the twentieth century truly became the American century. One Summer transforms it all into narrative nonfiction of the highest order.
A GoodReads Reader's Choice The summer of 1927 began with Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Babe Ruth was closing in on the home run record. In Newark, New Jersey, Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly sat atop a flagpole for twelve days, and in Chicago, the gangster Al Capone was tightening his grip on bootlegging. The first true "talking picture," Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer, was filmed, forever changing the motion picture industry.
All this and much, much more transpired in the year Americans attempted and accomplished outsized things--and when the twentieth century truly became the American century. One Summer transforms it all into narrative nonfiction of the highest order.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780767919418ISBN-10:767919416UPC:9780767919418Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Social History, Popular CultureBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC3QSBD326
Bill Bryson's bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, In a Sunburned Country, A Short History of Nearly Everything (which earned him the 2004 Aventis Prize), The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and At Home. He lives in England with his wife.
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