One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson

One Summer: America, 1927

Bill Bryson
Anchor; Reprint edition
Jun 2014
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A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy BookA GoodReads Readers 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 Jolsons 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.,

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