The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible! - Softcover

Bettmann, Otto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394709411 ISBN 13: 9780394709413

Verlag: Random House Publishing Group, 1974

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Book by Bettmann Otto

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Reseña del editor:

The Good Old Days—were they really good? On the surface they appear to be so—especially the period to which this term is most often applied, the years from the end of the Civil War to the early 1900’s. This period of history has receded into a benevolent haze, leaving us with the image of an ebullient, carefree America, the fun and charm of the Gilded Age, the Gay Nineties.

But this gaiety was only a brittle veneer that covered widespread turmoil and suffering. The good old days were good for but the privileged few. For the farmer, the laborer, the average breadwinner, life was an unremitting hardship. This segment of the populace was exploited or lived in the shadow of total neglect. And youth had no voice. These are the people, the mass of Americans, whose adversities this book attempts to chronicle.

Nota de la solapa:

plains why the "good old days" were only good for a priviledged few and why they were unrelentingly hard for most. Sobering, actually. Check it out.

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• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0394709411
• ISBN 13: 9780394709413
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224