One Summer: America, 1927
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Sell my copyAuthor: Bill Bryson
Title: One Summer: America, 1927
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 544
Release Date: 2014-06-03
Details: A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book
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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.
EAN: 9780767919418
Package Dimensions: Height: 7.98 Inches, Length: 5.21 Inches, Weight: 1.1125 Pounds, Width: 1.04 Inches
Languages: en
