One Summer America

In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest of the time), a semi-crazed sculptor with a mad plan to carve four giant heads into an inaccessible mountain called Rushmore, a devastating flood of the Mississippi,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bill Bryson
Format: Printed Book
Published: London Doubleday 2013
Subjects:
Nineteen twenty-seven, A.D. United States > Social life and customs > 1918-1945. United States > Social conditions > 1918-1932.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue (starting p. 9)
  • May: The Kid (starting p. 33)
  • June: The Babe (starting p. 121)
  • July: The President (starting p. 209)
  • August: The Anarchists (starting p. 297)
  • September: Summer's End (starting p. 389)
  • Epilogue (starting p. 467)
  • Bibliography (starting p. 497)
  • Notes on Sources and Further Reading (starting p. 511)
  • Acknowledgements (starting p. 523)
  • Photo Acknowledgements (starting p. 525)
  • Index (starting p. 529)

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