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America Moved
Booth Tarkington
其他書名
Booth Tarkington's Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869-1928
出版
Wipf and Stock Publishers
, 2015-02-27
主題
History / United States / General
History / General
ISBN
162564843X
9781625648433
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dN_0BgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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America Moved: Booth Tarkington's Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869-1928
brings together for the first time all of the autobiographical writings of Booth Tarkington, one of the most successful and best-loved writers in American history. These are the memoirs of one of America's greatest literary figures--and one of the keenest interpreters of American manners and mores.
During his lifetime, Tarkington was immensely popular. From 1902 to 1932, nine of his books were top ten bestsellers,
The Magnificent Ambersons
and
Alice Adams
won Pulitzer Prizes, and Tarkington's
Penrod
stories became widely recognized as young-adult classics.
America Moved
demonstrates that Tarkington's writing and powers of social observation stand the test of time. Written in a genial, easygoing style,
America Moved
gently but consistently interrogates the values of the new commercial-industrial age, especially its obsessions with speed, growth, and efficiency. The humane skepticism Tarkington directs in these pages toward the automobile, sprawl, and the cult of Progress identifies him as a voice quite at home in the twenty-first century.
America Moved
will delight readers with an enjoyable eyewitness account of the vast social and cultural changes that transformed America between the Civil War and the Great Depression.