Life : our century in pictures for young people
Item details
- ISBN: 0316815896
- ISBN: 9780316815895
- ISBN: 0316815772 (Scholastic ed.)
- ISBN: 9780316815772 (Scholastic ed.)
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Physical Description:
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223 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c2000.
Contents / Notes
General Note: | "This book is based on Life: our century in pictures (Bullfinch Press, 1999) and features photographs from this book". Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Editor's Note: Dust Bowls and Other Dreams -- 1900-1913: Across the Threshold -- "The Dawn of the American Century" / Katherine Paterson -- Turning Point: Titanic and Beyond -- Requiem: Mark Twain, Harriet Tubman, Geronimo, Susan B. Anthony -- 1914-1919: The War to End All Wars -- "A New Kind of War" / Jane Yolen -- Turning Point: The American Musical -- Requiem: Buffalo Bill, Booker T. Washington, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frank Woolworth... -- 1920-1929: All That Glitters -- "Get Hot!" / Avi -- Turning Point: Closing the Gender Gap -- Requiem: Lizzie Borden, Enrico Caruso, Wyatt Earp, Alexander Graham Bell... -- 1930-1939: Empty Pockets -- "Years of Hilarity and Heartbreak" / Robert Cormier -- Turning Point: The Fugitive Kind -- Requiem: Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart, Sigmund Freud, George Gershwin... -- 1940-1945: World on Fire -- "The Home Front" / Lois Lowry -- Turning Point: Conquest of the Atom -- Requiem: Beatrix Potter, Lou Gehrig, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Washington Carver... -- 1946-1963: Spreading the Wealth -- "Changes" / Patricia, Fredrick McKissack -- Turning Point: Struggle for Respect -- Requiem: Robert Frost, James Dean, Eva Peron, Frank Lloyd Wright... -- 1964-1975: Dissent and Disobedience -- "Years of Turbulence" / Jerry Spinelli -- Turning Point: Exploring the Heavens -- Requiem: Roberto Clemente, Che Guevara, Oskar Schindler, J. R. R. Tolkien... -- 1976-1992: A Global Burst of Freedom -- "Liberty for All" / Gary Paulsen -- Turning Point: Shrinking the World -- Requiem: Bob Marley, Dr. Seuss, Alfred Hitchcock, Jim Henson... -- 1993-1999: OurFuture.com -- "Good Wins Out" / Cynthia Rylant -- Turning Point: Origin of the Species -- Requiem: Jerry Garcia, John F. Kennedy Jr., Arthur Ashe, Mother Teresa.... |
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