The CenturyWhat was it like to watch the Wright Brothers soar into the sky? To hear the first crackling voice aired on the radio? To cower in the ghastly trenches of Europe during World War I? To lose everything in the stock-market crash of 1929, or experience the birth of rock and roll? To watch the Berlin Wall divide East and West, and then, twenty-eight years later, to see it fall under the weight of tens of thousands seeking to taste freedom? For the past seven years, researchers, reporters, and producers for ABC News have searched the world's archives for the rarest and most stunning photographs and images, consulted eminent twentieth-century historians, and discovered and interviewed hundreds of eyewitnesses and participants in the significant moments of the most eventful one hundred years in human history. The result is this spectacular book, the independent companion volume to the landmark ABC News and The History Channel television series "The Century." Co-written by ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings and Senior Editorial Producer Todd Brewster, "The Century" features a narrative of extraordinary quality that tracks major themes--the impact of technology, the soaring of the imagination, the ghastly violence, the joy of entertainment--through chronological chapters recounting the signal moments of each era in the century. From "Seeds of Change: 1901-1914" to "Machine Dreams: 1990-1999," each chapter is threaded through with fascinating first-person accounts of the great events of the twentieth century, and illustrated with over five hundred color and black-and-white photographs (many never published before) reproduced in exquisite depth and clarity. "The Century" presents history as itwas lived, and as it will be remembered for the next hundred years. Here is a keepsake volume destined to be an essential part of every family's library: an epic journey through the last hundred years, whose heroes are our grandparents, our parents, ourselves. |
Contents
Boom to Bust 19201929 | 98 |
Over the Edge 19361941 | 184 |
Years of Doubt 19691981 | 420 |
Copyright | |
5 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
American army arrived asked baby battle became began Berlin bomb born called campaign century Cold War Communist decade declared Elvis Presley Europe father fear feel felt fight film force friends front German going happened Hitler Japanese Jews Kennedy kids killed King knew Kristallnacht later leader lives looked Love Canal Marilyn Monroe Martin Luther King million mother moved movie nation Nazi never night Nixon Poland police political president radio Reagan Ronald Reagan Roosevelt Russian seemed sense society soldiers Soviet Union Stalin started story streets talk television things thought thousand tion told took troops turned United Vietnam W. E. B. Du Bois walked wanted Washington watching women workers World War II York young