Title:
Life : our century in pictures for young people
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Richard B. Stolley ; adapted by Amy E. Sklansky.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Boston : Little, Brown and Co., ©2000.
Physical Description:
223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
ISBN:
9780316815895
9780316815772
General Note:
"This book is based on Life: our century in pictures (Bullfinch Press, 1999) and features photographs from this book."
Includes index.
Abstract:
Illustrated description of major events and important people of the twentieth century.
Added Uniform Title:
Life (Chicago, Ill. : 1978)
Life, our century in pictures.
Contents:
Editor's Note: Dust Bowls and Other Dreams -- 1900-1913: Across the Threshold -- "The Dawn of the American Century" / Katherine Paterson -- Turning Point: Titanic and Beyond -- Requiem: Mark Twain, Harriet Tubman, Geronimo, Susan B. Anthony -- 1914-1919: The War to End All Wars -- "A New Kind of War" / Jane Yolen -- Turning Point: The American Musical -- Requiem: Buffalo Bill, Booker T. Washington, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frank Woolworth ... -- 1920-1929: All That Glitters -- "Get Hot!" / Avi -- Turning Point: Closing the Gender Gap -- Requiem: Lizzie Borden, Enrico Caruso, Wyatt Earp, Alexander Graham Bell ... -- 1930-1939: Empty Pockets -- "Years of Hilarity and Heartbreak" / Robert Cormier -- Turning Point: The Fugitive Kind -- Requiem: Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart, Sigmund Freud, George Gershwin ... -- 1940-1945: World on Fire -- "The Home Front" / Lois Lowry -- Turning Point: Conquest of the Atom -- Requiem: Beatrix Potter, Lou Gehrig, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Washington Carver ... -- 1946-1963: Spreading the Wealth -- "Changes" / Patricia, Fredrick McKissack -- Turning Point: Struggle for Respect -- Requiem: Robert Frost, James Dean, Eva Peron, Frank Lloyd Wright ... -- 1964-1975: Dissent and Disobedience -- "Years of Turbulence" / Jerry Spinelli -- Turning Point: Exploring the Heavens -- Requiem: Roberto Clemente, Che Guevara, Oskar Schindler, J.R.R. Tolkien ... -- 1976-1992: A Global Burst of Freedom -- "Liberty for All" / Gary Paulsen -- Turning Point: Shrinking the World -- Requiem: Bob Marley, Dr. Seuss, Alfred Hitchcock, Jim Henson ... -- 1993-1999: OurFuture.com -- "Good Wins Out" / Cynthia Rylant -- Turning Point: Origin of the Species -- Requiem: Jerry Garcia, John F. Kennedy Jr., Arthur Ashe, Mother Teresa ...