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The Century by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster A Century of American and World History - Coffee Table Book - Hardcover - Like New
The Century by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster A Century of American and World History - Coffee Table Book - Hardcover - Like New
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The Century by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster A Century of American and World History
The Century by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster is an in-depth look at American and world history over the past century. It is the collective histories of our grandparents, parents and any of us born before 1998. Even some of our great-grandparents. Reading and looking through this book a lot of the stories and the stories of my grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles seem to collide. The photographs are so similar to the ones my folks left to me. It's eerie at times, horrifying at others. And then there were times I caught myself smiling. This is such a wonderful book.
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What was it like to watch the Wright Brothers soar into the sky? To hear the first crackling voice aired on the radio? To cower in the ghastly trenches of Europe during World War I? To lose everything in the stock-market crash of 1929, or experience the birth of rock and roll? To watch the Berlin Wall divide East and West, and then, twenty-eight years later, to see it fall under the weight of tens of thousands seeking to taste freedom? For the past seven years, researchers, reporters, and producers for ABC News have searched the world's archives for the rarest and most stunning photographs and images, consulted eminent twentieth-century historians, and discovered and interviewed hundreds of eyewitnesses and participants in the significant moments of the most eventful one hundred years in human history.
The result is this spectacular book, the independent companion volume to the landmark ABC News and The History Channel television series The Century. Co-written by ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings and Senior Editorial Producer Todd Brewster, The Century features a narrative of extraordinary quality that tracks major themes--the impact of technology, the soaring of the imagination, the ghastly violence, the joy of entertainment--through chronological chapters recounting the signal moments of each era in the century. From "Seeds of Change: 1901-1914" to "Machine Dreams: 1990-1999," each chapter is threaded through with fascinating first-person accounts of the great events of the twentieth century, and illustrated with over five hundred color and black-and-white photographs (many never published before) reproduced in exquisite depth and clarity.
It has been well loved so it is excellent unused condition condition.
It is a first edition with dust jacket. (c)1998 Peter Jennings, Todd Brewster pg.610 Hardcover with jacket.
Product information
Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (November 10, 1998)
Language: English
Hardcover: 624 pages
ISBN 10: 0385483279
ISBN 13: 978-0385483278
Item Weight: 5.75 pounds
Dimensions: 9.5 x 1.5 x 11 inches
Condition: Pre-owned (LIKE NEW), but never used.
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