The Glory and the Dreamby William Manchester | |
| Category: |
"U.S. History - Cultural" |
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| Pages: | 1302 |
| Year of Publication: | 1974 |
| Notes: | Four decades of American life. The Thirties: The Bonus March, Herbert Hoover, The Great Depression, Little Orphan Annie, Swing, Gone With the Wind. The Forties: Pearl Harbor, Victory Gardens, Casablanca, Hepburn and Tracy, D-Day, Hiroshima. The Fifties: "I Like Ike," Joe McCarthy, the Hula Hoop, TV, the hydrogen bomb, Elvis. The Sixties: The Kennedys, the Beatles, Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Woodstock. Watergate. There is no fiction that can compete with good gossipy, anecdotal history. |
| My Rating: | 9 |