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Author Klingaman, William K.

Title 1919 : the year our world began / William K. Klingaman.

Imprint New York : Harper & Row, 1989, c1987.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  909.821 K686n 1989    ---  Available
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  909.821 K686n 1989 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st Perennial Library ed.
Description xxv, 689 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Note "Klingaman lucidly describes the various political and cultural plots in different parts of the world and how actions in one place have ramifications elsewhere. The personalities of the newsmakers of the era are covered including two who were starting their rise to power during the period, Benito Mussolini and Adlof Hitler. Interpersonal communication between the "big four", (Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando, Georges Clenmenceau, and Woodrow Wilson) is included. Klingaman includes in his overview, stories of aviators Harry Hawker and MacKenzie Grieve, who tried to make the first nonstop Atlantic crossing. In terms of popular culture he looks at the career of Charlie Chaplin. On the sports front he describes the infamous Chicago Black Sox matter. Generally speaking this book effectively captures a broad sweep of what was happening in 1919."--Amazon.com.
Reprint. Originally published : New York : St. Martin's Press, c1987.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [664]-670) and index.
Subject History, Modern -- 20th century.
Added Title Year our world began : 1919
ISBN 0060972513 (pa.)
9780060972516 (pa.)
0312005563
9780312005566

 
    
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