Synopses & Reviews
America 1900 is a sweeping narrative that follows an eclectic group of men and women over the course of one pivotal year. As it happened, the issues they were dealing with are surprisingly similar to those their grandchildren and great-grandchildren face in the year 2000. Change had come so fast that there was an almost magical belief in the powers of science and technology. The country had never been more prosperous, but the gap between rich and poor had never been greater. And the soaring sense of optimism most Americans felt was severely tested by wars abroad and dissension at home.
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"With a novelist's instinct for character and story, an abundance of colorful anecdotes, and an eye for delicious detail, Crichton has produced an extraordinary chronicle of an extraordinary year." (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
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"A popular history of the very best sort, combining rich prose with striking photographs to summon up the shades of the past and give their story a tingling immediacy that shrinks time." (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
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"This is a vivid, thoughtful portrait, thoroughly researched and enlivened throughout by Judy Crichton's expert use of detail. Here is America when everything was popping, a year full of surprise and heartbreak and great drama." (David McCullough)
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"With a novelist's instinct for character and story, an abundance of colorful anecdotes, and an eye for delicious detail, Crichton has produced an extraordinary chronicle of an extraordinary year." (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
*"A popular history of the very best sort, combining rich prose with striking photographs to summon up the shades of the past and give their story a tingling immediacy that shrinks time." (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
"This is a vivid, thoughtful portrait, thoroughly researched and enlivened throughout by Judy Crichton's expert use of detail. Here is America when everything was popping, a year full of surprise and heartbreak and great drama." (David McCullough)
About the Author
Judy Crichton, a distinguished documentary writer, producer, and director is founding executive producer of the acclaimed PBS history series The American Experience. She has won many awards for her writing and journalism, including the George Foster Peabody Award, five Writers Guild Awards, and five Emmys.