One Summer America 1927

A 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 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.

Product details

• Authors: Bill Bryson
• Publisher: Anchor Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.06.2014
• EAN: 9780767919418
• ISBN: 978-0-7679-1941-8
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, History - U.S.