The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible!
$35.99
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
12 October 1974
Summary
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 1900s. 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780394709413 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0394709411 |
| Author: | Otto Bettmann |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 12 October 1974 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Otto Bettmann
Otto L. Bettmann is the founder of the famed Bettmann Archive in New York, one of the world’s great picture libraries. Its resources, some three million prints and photographs, are used all over the world by publishers, educators, ad men and the audio-visual media.
Expelled during the Nazi regime from his post as Curator of Rare Books at the Prussian State Art Library in Berlin, Dr. Bettmann came to America in 1935 where he established the Archive and became widely known as a graphic historian.
Among his previous publications are As We Were- Family Life in America, A Pictorial History of Medicine, Our Literary Heritage (with Van Wyck Brooks) and The Bettmann Portable Archive.
Dr. Bettmann died in 1998.
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