Read by: Bill Bryson
Language: English
Length: 17 hours and 3 minutes
Publisher: Random House Audio
Release date: 2013-10-01
Platform | Country | Chart | Last Rank | Last Ranked At |
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Apple | Top Audiobooks - History | 191 | September 19, 2024 |
Audie Award Finalist, History, 2014
One of the most admired nonfiction writers of our time retells the story of one truly fabulous year in the life of his native country - a fascinating and gripping narrative featuring such outsized American heroes as Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, and yes Herbert Hoover, and a gallery of criminals (Al Capone), eccentrics (Shipwreck Kelly), and close-mouthed politicians (Calvin Coolidge). It was the year Americans attempted and accomplished outsized things and came of age in a big, brawling manner. What a country. What a summer. And what a writer to bring it all so vividly alive for us in this certain best-seller.