One Summer: America, 1927

By Bill Bryson

Categories: History

Bill Bryson's narrative history centers on the summer of 1927 in the United States, when Charles Lindbergh flew alone across the Atlantic and Babe Ruth set a record of sixty home runs in a season. Around them Bryson weaves the great Mississippi flood, the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, the first talking picture, Calvin Coolidge's quiet presidency, the stock market boom and decisions that led toward the Depression.

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