The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History Of America, 1932-1972 (Digital Original)

By: William Manchester

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Synopsis: A New York Times–bestselling historian&’s in-depth portrait of life in America, from the Depression era to the early 1970s: &“Magnificent&” (The New York Times). Award-winning historian and biographer William Manchester, author of The Last Lion, an epic three-volume biography of Winston Churchill, brings us an evocative exploration of the American way of life from 1932 to 1972. Covering almost every facet of American culture during a very diverse and tumultuous period in history, Manchester&’s account is both dramatic and surprisingly intimate—with compelling details that could only be known by a dedicated historian who lived through and documented this fascinating time. It&’s an enlightening, affecting, and highly entertaining journey through four extraordinary decades in the life of America. &“There is no fiction that can compete with good, gossipy, anecdotal history—the inside story of who said or did what in moments of great tensions or crisis . . . I think you ought to read this history and weep, read it and laugh, read it and don&’t repeat it.&” —Anatole Broyard