THE GOOD YEARS

by Walter Lord ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 13, 1960

Those of us who lived through what Walter Lord calls ""the good years""- 1900 to the First World War -- will sense a somewhat cynical undercurrent in the aspects of those years he has chosen to recall. The rich were very rich, the poor very poor- and recurrently the differences are dramatized. But Mr. Lord has applied his provenly successful techniques to many of the highlights of these years:- the Boxer Rebellion; McKinley's assassination; Theodore Roosevelt's attack on the trusts; the Wright Brothers faltering steps towards the flying machine; Henry Ford's appreciation of the need of a low priced car; the San Francisco earthquake and fire; Darrow and the melodrama of Bill Haywood's trial- the union issue joined; panic- bank failures- Wall Street crash- and J.P. Morgan to the rescue; the story of Peary's dash to the Pole- and the anticlimax involved when Cook claimed precedence; the battle for woman's suffrage; the Wilson story; child labor- and a final chapter we have not seen of the last summer of the good years before war shattered the illusion of permanent security and contentment. Immensely readable and with an unfailing sense of participation, The Good Years brings to life more than a decade of remembered times.

Pub Date: June 13, 1960

ISBN: 0548440840

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harper

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 1960

Categories: NONFICTION