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One Summer

America, 1927

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One Summer

Auteur(s): Bill Bryson
Narrateur(s): Bill Bryson
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 A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book
A GoodReads Reader's Choice

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. Amériques Culture populaire Sciences sociales États-Unis Sports
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Filled with the most interesting stories, you won’t want it to end. Bill Bryson’s best book!

Bill Bryson’s Best Book

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A fascinating social history. Bryson’s narration is lovely and engaging. Thoroughly enjoyable to listen to.

Excellent

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Bryson has done it again! Starting with an interesting premise, a delve into one of America's most interesting summers, Bryson paints a well-researched and fascinating landscape of those amazingly eventful few months that takes flight across the ocean with the Spirit of St. Louis and rumbles around ball diamonds in the United States. His portraits focus on some of the major historic figures of the time (including Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, Sacco and Vanzetti, and Al Capone) but it is the (now largely forgotten) characters who add richness to the book. Bryson shows us the personalities, news stories, films, crimes, events, and pastimes of the era and, as his his delightful way, he finds the interesting connections between and among them and uses those connections to stitch the tapestry of that summer. a great summer read/listen any time if the year!

What a summer - what a book!

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I have listened to this audiobook at least 5 times. Bryson is a master at blending the informative with the entertaining, the charming with the thought provoking. Every chapter of history is bursting with stories to be told, and no one tells them better than Bill Bryson. On top of all that, his narration is charming, soothing, and endearing. If you get this app and listen to only one book, make it this.

Brilliant historical storytelling

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a great premise for this book with Incredible stories and insights of the people who lived in 1927

listened to this book four times

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