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I bought this for my son for Christmas, having seen it reviewed in the Wall Street Journal. It's a fabulous book about the events of the summer of 1927 in America. The book starts with Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic, and continues through events with which we are all familiar, but with detail and story telling that made it really fresh. We both greatly enjoyed this book.


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One Summer America 1927 Bill Bryson 9780767919401 Books Reviews

I discovered Bill Bryson some years ago listening to the audiobook of his fantastic "A Short History of Nearly Everything". I constantly recommend that tome to whomever will listen. I have gone on to read many of his other works, "A Walk in the Woods" and "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid", in particular. I find Bryson to be immensely entertaining, funny and informative in equal measure.

"One Summer America 1927" is another great addition to the Bryson pantheon of wonderful books and to my library. Bryson's ability to weave together several apparently disparate threads into a cohesive, interesting narrative is a real gift. From Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis and others flyers making history, to Babe Ruth and the Yankees and their season for the ages, to Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover and the politics of the day, to Prohibition and its effect nationally and on Chicago with its mayor Big Bill Thompson and the rise and precipitous fall of Al Capone, to the trial and eventual demises of Sacco and Vanzetti, to the invention and growth of "talkies" and television and the death of silent films and much more, Bryson is the master puppeteer, dangling the various stories to delight of the reader.

Bill Bryson is a master. I always look forward to his next book, and "One Summer America 1927" is no exception. Scarcely does a page go by that some captivating fact is not revealed. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would recommend it highly. The book covers so much territory that you are bound to find something interesting to you. Treat yourself.
The author was sorely in need of a real editor—someone one who would put the trivial, tedious facts that populate every chapter into an endnote where they could be accessed or even more appropriately, ignored. This isn’t supposed to be an authoritative text. It’s pop history. Gossipy, more than occasionally amusing, but not something other than that. And then rather than weaving the end story of each character he introduced into the bloated text, apparently the author grew weary of the whole exercise (understandable) and galloped through an epilogue that said little other than Joe died, Ralph died, and Fred died. Not surprising, enlightening, or even of passing interest.
"One Summer' is a marvelous history and revelatory accounting of so many things we think we know. I was especially interested to read the real story of Herbert Hoover.

History has blurred and made mythological our idols and heroes. Bryson demystifies and sheds light on times past that reflect so much of today. So much is common for today... Hoover, for example, was so intent on self-aggrandizement, he made certain newspapers got press releases of any of his activities. If anyone wrote anything uncomplimentary, he'd retaliate with long winded criticisms.

The book is well written, as any Bryson book is, and it left me feeling I was now an insider to our history and, now, cannot be surprised at the antics of our leaders.
It was one hell of a summer in 1927, when Charles Lindbergh, 25, made a nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris, when Babe Ruth, 32, broke his own home-run record by slugging 60 in the season, when Al Capone, 28, reigned American gangsters. In “One Summer, America 1927,” Bill Bryson pauses for a moment to remember just some of the things that happened that summer, by revealing unknown aspects of children of their ages, who are familiar even to Japanese. He painstakingly digs up news, goods, and works, to which ordinary people were unanimously mad about at that time. A title itself plays to our curiousness. It was a time people became wild easily. Frantic air overlaid the era. Spectators gathered in huge numbers to every event. Heroes and heroins met incidentally in this mood and were influenced by each other.

America had been suffered from abnormal weather in that summer. It rained steadily across much of the country, sometimes in volumes not before seen. Heat wave of summer was under way. The Great Migration, blacks’ moving out from the South, began soon after the Mississippi flood, which lead to keeping out immigrant movements. Eugenics was a minion theory in that era. Bryson notes the fact sterilization laws still remain on the books in twenty states today. Extraordinary weather forced the federal government to accept that certain matters are too big for states to handle alone. The birth of Big Government in America. The canyon like streets and spiky skyline was largely a 1920s phenomena. Holland Tunnel was opened in 1927. A Mount Rushmore project was begun on. Constructing Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam started. It was the same summer four men, from America, England, Germany, and French, gathered at the Long Island to discuss abolishing the gold standard. The result connected to the Great Depression. Calvin Coolidge presided over a booming economy and did nothing at all to get in the way of it.

The 1920s was a great time for reading. Reading remained as a principal method for most people to fill idle time. It coincide precisely with the birth of tabloid papers and huge popularity of book clubs. Plausibility was not something that audiences needed for in the 1920s. An immense pulp fictions were printed out in this era. Bryson picks up the Sash Weight Murder Case to illustrate this frenzy. It would be overtaken soon by the passive distraction of radio. Lindbergh’s return in triumph was in many ways the day that radio came of age. American spent one-third of all the money for furniture on radios. The nation’s joy and obsession was baseball at that time. Baseball dominated and saturated American life culturally, emotionally. It was that summer Yankees won the American League championship with a league record, and Babe Ruth banged out 60 home runs. Boxing was also a 1920s phenomenon. Jack Dempsey - Gene Tunny Fight were held at the summer’s end of that year. Americans were excited about every on-the-spot broadcast. Many people came to find the automobile an essential part of life. One American in six owned a car by the late 1920s. It was getting close to a rate of one per family. And it was in the summer of 1927 that Henry Ford embarked on the most ambitious, and ultimately most foolish venture, the greatest rubber-producing estate, Fordlandia.

The 1920s are dubbed as the Jazz Age, the Roaring Twenties, and the Era of Wonderful Nonsense. Musical performances were prospered. Big theaters had been constructed. It was a flourishing time for America, various cultural icons for American life style were created and introduced. American century began to blossom with full of life and energy. America’s winning the World War I exhibited it’s existence to the world. In 1927, Americans were not popular in Europe and not popular at all in France. The most striking things to a foreign visitor, arriving in America for the first time in 1927, was how staggeringly well-off it was. No other country they knew had ever been this affluence, and it seemed getting wealthier daily at a dizzily pace for them. It was the time TV started test broadcasting. Talkies began to take place of Silent Movies. Talking pictures were going to change the entertainment world thoroughly. It not only stole audiences from live theaters but also, and even worse, reaped talent. Who couldn’t speak English were kicked out from the industry. Through talkies America began to export American thoughts, attitudes, humor and sensibilities, peaceably, almost unnoticed. America had just taken over the world.

It was a time of Prohibition. It was a time of despair for people of a conservative temperament. The 1920s were also an Age of Loathing. More people disliked more other people from more directions and for less reason. There were subversive activities. Foreign workers who couldn’t get job were thought to be anarchy. It was not a good time to be either a radical or an alien in America, and unquestionably dangerous to be both. Bryson takes up the Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti case to explain the atmosphere in this era. The European economies were uniformly wrecked while America’s was booming. America was blamed for it’s indifference to other countries suffering economic difficulties. Rejecting foreign workers led to bringing out negative feeling from other countries. Before the summer ended, millions of French would hate America, and it would actually be unsafe to be an American on French street.

What did Lindberg’s success mean to American people. America has fallen behind from the rest of the world in every important area of technology in the 1920s. Lindbergh’s flight brought the world a moment of sublime, spontaneous, unifying joy on a scale never seen before for some unknowable reason. There would have been the gratifying novelty of coming first at something. America was suddenly dominant in nearly every field. In popular culture, finance and banking, military power, invention and technology, these center of gravity for the planet was moving from Europe to America. Charles Lindbergh’s flight somehow became the culminating expression of this. It is interesting to note Bryson counts as advantage for American fliers over European competitors is their using aviation fuel from California. It burned more cleanly and gave better mileage. It harbingers the coming oil century. It is impossible to imagine what was it about Charles Lindbergh and his 1927 flight to Paris that so transfixed the world in that summer. Bryson seems to have no interest about psychological analysis of heroes. He objectively piles up the facts from datas still remained. We are enthralled many times by accidental outcome resultant from connection between people and or tossed about by the tide. The greatest hero of the twentieth century was infinitely more of an enigma and considerably less of a hero than anyone had ever supposed. Alexis Carrel, a famous doctor at that time, provided Lindbergh with an enduring friendship and years of bad advice. Lindberg was invited to the Olympics in Berlin as a guest of the Nazis. He and his wife became unapologetic admirers of Adolf Hitler. People’s enthusiasm to Lindberg burnt out quickly and never returned. 1927 was substantially the first year of Showa in Japan. Showa actually started from the late December of the previous year. Ryuunosuke Akutagawa, a novelist, suicided from dimly obscured uneasiness in this year. It was an era militarism crept upon Japanese from the behind unnoticeably.
I bought this for my son for Christmas, having seen it reviewed in the Wall Street Journal. It's a fabulous book about the events of the summer of 1927 in America. The book starts with Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic, and continues through events with which we are all familiar, but with detail and story telling that made it really fresh. We both greatly enjoyed this book.