The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972 by...

Description: The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972 by William Manchester Volume 2 In The Glory and the Dream William Manchester springs open a great time capsule of a book- a huge, abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972. The Glory of the Dream encompasses politics, military history, economics, the lively arts, science, fashion, fads, social change, sexual mores, communications, graffiti- everything and anything indigenous that can be captured in print, It may remind readers of Only Yesterday- in fact, it picks up where Frederick Lewis Allen left off. It may remind others of John Dos Passo's U.S.A. It is indeed a nonfiction U.S.A. The Glory and the Dream chronicles the progress of life in the United States from the time William Manchester and his generation reached the beginning of awareness in the desparate summer of '32 to President Nixon's Second Inaugural Address- and the opening scenes of Watergate. Masterfully compressing four crowded decades of our history. Manchester relives the epic or significant or just memorable events that befell the generation of Americans whose lives pivoted between the America before and the America after the Second World War. The Glory and the Dream tells the story of that generation. Narrated by an extraordinarily gifted and seasoned reporter and observer. The Glory and the Dream moves at a vigorous pace, hishlighted by Manchester's brilliant selection of detail and rendition of scenes, characters, and moods of the country. Interspersed throughout the narrative are brief biographies of notable Americans (such as Eleanor Rossesvelt, Marilyn Monroe, Edward R. Murrow, Karl Hess, the Edsel) and montages of popular songs, advertising jingles, bits of slang- andthing that catches the tone or conveys the flavor of a given period. In a hopeful and moving epilogue, the circle is brought around again to 1932 and to the children (among them the author) who were then just beginning to find their places in the world. Thoroughly researched and with a find sense of drama, The Glory and the Dream is a remarkable re-creation of our recent past by an authority who developed his stature at the heart of that experience. He looks upon this outstanding book as the culmination of his career. William Manchester once suggested to President John F. Kennedy that he was a generational chauvinist. Kennedy laughed and said, "You're another." The author admitted it In 1932, when the narrative of The Glory and the Dream opens, Manchester was ten years old and already an avid reader of newspapers. He has always felt a strong sense of identity with others who also reached the age of awareness then. And he has had exceptional opportunities to observe history as it has been made during his generation. The son of a Massachusetts social worker, he saw the sufferings of the Great Depression firsthand, Fourteen years old when Franklin Rossevelt ran for reelection in 1936, he was a volunteer at Democratic headquarters in Springfield, Massachusetts. After Pearl Harbor he joined the Marine Corps and was gravely wounded on Okinawa. Discharged as totally disabled, Manchester recovered in graduate school where he wrote his dissertation on the literary criticism of H.L. Meneken. This book is USED. So there may be some imperfections.

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