Review from 2013:
Middle-School History covering 1918-1945. Model T's, wood-frame airplanes, radios, Prohibition, jazz, the Roaring Twenties, Babe Ruth, flappers, the Depression, and two World Wars...all in a thirty-year span. That pretty much gives a good summary of what you find in this book. I've noticed that now that things are getting closer to modern times, the jumping around is much less and the author makes it a point to detail a lot more than what I remember learning about from my history classes, middle and high school. I knew there had been a WWI but had no idea who it concerned or how it ended much less that it had paved the way for WWII. I had a basic knowledge of Jazz and it's roots but not the bigger picture that was shown in this book. I knew about the Depression and Black Friday but not the events that had led up to it. That to me is what is truly important about history, not just knowing about the big events but how those came about and what they caused.
Page count: 220p/1,053p ytd/293,074p lifetime
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