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Original Title:	One Summer: America 1927
ISBN:	0767919408 (ISBN13: 9780767919401)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, Al Jolson, Herbert Hoover, Al Capone, Lou Gehrig, Philo Farnsworth, Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, Calvin Coolidge
Setting:	United States of America,1927
Literary Awards:	Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for History & Biography (2013)

One Summer: America, 1927

Bill Bryson

Hardcover | Pages: 456 pages

Rating: 4.08 | 42048 Users | 4774 Reviews

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Title	:	One Summer: America, 1927
Author	:	Bill Bryson
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 456 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2013 by Doubleday (first published August 1st 2013)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. North American Hi.... American History. Audiobook

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In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life.

The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross the Atlantic by plane nonstop, and when he landed in Le Bourget airfield near Paris, he ignited an explosion of worldwide rapture and instantly became the most famous person on the planet. Meanwhile, the titanically talented Babe Ruth was beginning his assault on the home run record, which would culminate on September 30 with his sixtieth blast, one of the most resonant and durable records in sports history. In between those dates a Queens housewife named Ruth Snyder and her corset-salesman lover garroted her husband, leading to a murder trial that became a huge tabloid sensation. Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly sat atop a flagpole in Newark, New Jersey, for twelve days—a new record. The American South was clobbered by unprecedented rain and by flooding of the Mississippi basin, a great human disaster, the relief efforts for which were guided by the uncannily able and insufferably pompous Herbert Hoover. Calvin Coolidge interrupted an already leisurely presidency for an even more relaxing three-month vacation in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The gangster Al Capone tightened his grip on the illegal booze business through a gaudy and murderous reign of terror and municipal corruption. The first true “talking picture,” Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer, was filmed and forever changed the motion picture industry. The four most powerful central bankers on earth met in secret session on a Long Island estate and made a fateful decision that virtually guaranteed a future crash and depression.
     All this and much, much more transpired in that epochal summer of 1927, and Bill Bryson captures its outsized personalities, exciting events, and occasional just plain weirdness with his trademark vividness, eye for telling detail, and delicious humor. In that year America stepped out onto the world stage as the main event, and One Summer transforms it all into narrative nonfiction of the highest order.

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There are some very obvious qualities to look for when choosing a history book. Accuracy is one thing. You want the facts to be factual. Analysis is another. You want there to be some meaning to the facts presented. Storytelling, though. Storytelling is the thing. And its hard to find. So often in my reading, Ive found that narrative takes a backseat to academic qualities such as primary source sifting. Its a shame, because I think storytelling is the paramount quality of a good history book.

I know I'm Johnny-come-lately on the Bill Bryson bandwagon, but I am fast becoming a full-fledged fanclub member! Honestly, I'd read just about anything that dude wrote. In fact, if I can convince him to write my obituary, I'm going to throw myself in front of a bus the first chance I get just so I can read it!The title of One Summer: America, 1927 explains pretty clearly what's between the covers. And oh boy, what a whole heck of a lot happened that year! Here's some of the highlights



Bill Bryson is a writer who could make anything fascinating and he really shines in this book. I had no idea the summer of 1927 was so noteworthy, but it turns out a bunch of remarkable people were involved in a lot of impressive and/or notorious activities, including Al Capone, Babe Ruth, Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, Herbert Hoover, and a host of others--some of whom Id never heard of. Due to personal preferences parts of the book interested me more than others, but Brysons skill as a

A non-fiction work centered around events of one particular year but about the 1920s in general. Its really a collections of mini-biographies and vignettes of the major players and events of the 1920a. Fifty photos are included. The two main characters threaded throughout the book whose stories provide a framework for the whole are Charles Lindbergh and Babe Ruth. If you read this book, heres what youll get:Stories of early aviation and how the US was way behind Europe in scheduled commercial

Oh Bill, Bill, Bill, how I wish you were my uncle. I would love to have dinner and sit around and just listen to you talk and tell stories. Every time I read a Bryson book I am amazed at his easy going, funny tone coupled with research. I'm sure he does not actually sound this great in conversation, but boy can he write a nonfiction book.Seriously, he manages to teach a bunch of stuff (and even spew for pages on end about baseball statistics) without my eyes rolling back into my head. I would

Much as I enjoy Bill Bryson's travel and autobiographical writing, I like his histories A Short History of Nearly Everything and this even better. This is just marvelously funny, appalling, startling, and fascinating. Who would have thought that one summer could encompass so much?Actually, of course, Bryson doesn't limit his story to America in the summer of 1927. He moves forward and backward in time, to more fully tell about events, and he takes readers with his characters to South America,