20th Century Journey: A Memoir Of A Life And The Times

Description for 20TH CENTURY JOURNEY: A MEMOIR OF A LIFE AND THE TIMES: THE START: 1904-1930 by William L Shirer: This is a memoir not only of a life but of the times: the first part of the 20th century as the author saw it unfold in America, Europe and part of Asia. It is both autobiography and history---by one of America's best known journalists and historians. It is the story of an American who was born in the heartland shortly after the turn of the century and saw the country develop from the horse-and-buggy age, when there were few automobiles and electric lights and no movies, radio, television, electric refrigerators or washing machines, traffic lights, filling stations, income taxes, women's suffrage or travel by air, to the jet/nuclear age, when man had unlocked the secrets of the atom and learned not only how to blow up the planet in thirty minutes but how to land on the moon and propel and guide rockets to the stars. It was a world, Shirer points out, that cha