Life : Our Century in Pictures

by Stolley, Richard B.

• ISBN13: 9780821226339
• ISBN10: 0821226339
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-10-07
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co

Summary

Selected from the photographic archives of LIFE and other major collections, these spellbinding images bring alive the people and events that shaped the twentieth century. With incredible emotional impact, this book captures the triumphs and disasters, the social progress and setbacks, the heroes and villains that have brought us to the dawn of a new century.

Table of Contents

EDITOR'S NOTE: DUST BOWLS AND OTHER DREAMS	VI
1900-1913: ACROSS THE THRESHOLD	1	(38)
"Rough-Riding into American Hearts"	2	(24)
H.W. Brands
TURNING POINT: Titanic and Beyond	26	(8)
REQUIEM: Mark Twain, Geronimo, Leo Tolstoy, Susan B. Anthony...	34	(5)
1914-1919: THE WAR TO END ALL WARS	39	(40)
"Victory Proved Easier Than Peace"	40	(12)
David M. Kennedy
TURNING POINT: The American Musical	52	(22)
REQUIEM: Buffalo Bill, Rasputin, Booker T. Washington, the Passenger Pigeon...	74	(5)
1920-1929: ALL THAT GLITTERS	79	(32)
"But Who Pays the Piper?"	80	(6)
Gene Smith
TURNING POINT: Closing the Gender Gap	86	(20)
REQUIEM: Lizzie Borden, Enrico Caruso, Franz Kafka, Wyatt Earp...	106	(5)
1930-1939: EMPTY POCKETS	111	(50)
"One Depression, Two Remedies"	112	(14)
Robert S. McElvaine
TURNING POINT: The Fugitive Kind	126	(30)
REQUIEM: Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart, Sigmund Freud, George Gershwin	156	(5)
1940-1945: WORLD ON FIRE	161	(60)
"The Last Casualty Is Innocence"	162	(46)
Paul Fussell
TURNING POINT: Conquest of the Atom	208	(8)
REQUIEM: Virginia Woolf, Glenn Miller, Lou Gehrig, F. Scott Fitzgerald...	216	(5)
1946-1963: SPREADING THE WEALTH	221	(68)
"An Age of Boom and Belief"	222	(26)
Ann Douglas
TURNING POINT: Struggle for Respect	248	(34)
REQUIEM: Margaret Mitchell, James Dean, Eva Peron, Frank Lloyd Wright...	282	(7)
1964-1975: DISSENT AND DISOBEDIENCE	289	(48)
"Choosing Sides in a Culture War"	290	(24)
Todd Gitlin
TURNING POINT: Exploring the Heavens	314	(16)
REQUIEM: Cole Porter, Che Guevara, Oskar Schindler, Jack Benny...	330	(7)
1976-1992: A GLOBAL BURST OF FREEDOM	337	(54)
"A Historical Work in Progress"	338	(14)
Garry Wills
TURNING POINT: Shrinking the World	352	(32)
REQUIEM: Bob Marley, Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin, Margaret Mead...	384	(7)
1993-1999: OURFUTURE.COM	391	(29)
"And Now the News: Man Bytes Dogma"	392	(10)
Paul Saffo
TURNING POINT: Origin of the Species	402	(14)
REQUIEM: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Benjamin Spock, Diana, Princess of Wales...	416	(4)
INDEX TO PICTURES	420