{"id":1881,"date":"2014-01-31T17:42:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T01:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2014-01-31T17:42:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T01:42:58","slug":"review-one-summer-america-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1881","title":{"rendered":"Review: One Summer, America, 1927"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Bryson has a knack for taking disparate facts and building them into an interesting narrative.\u00a0 in <em>1927<\/em> he does this with significant aplomb, picking a few larger than life people and watching how their lives and times mesh and unmesh.<\/p>\n<p>1927 is a good year for such a study of America.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the year that Lindberg crossed the Atlantic, that the Yankees fielded perhaps the greatest baseball team ever &#8211; led by Babe Ruth, and that&#8217;s just the beginning. Bryson is a natural raconteur and he both provides the color commentary on the larger than life protagonists, and he generates the overarching narrative the pulls the whole thing together.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t stay completely in 1927, of course.\u00a0 There are activities that set context for what happens in &#8217;27.\u00a0 There are activities that have their real repercussions after 1927, though their roots are there.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way Bryson shows us how 1927 reflects our time &#8211; show trials and pointless celebrity &#8211; and how it differs.\u00a0 It&#8217;s compelling to see how much and how little we have changed as a nation.<\/p>\n<p>Strongly Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Bryson has a knack for taking disparate facts and building them into an interesting narrative.\u00a0 in 1927 he does this with significant aplomb, picking a few larger than life people and watching how their lives and times mesh and unmesh. 1927 is a good year for such a study of America.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}