Book of Donmon Teith

More than 150 articles provide a revealing look at one of the most tempestuous decades in recent American history, describing the everyday activities of America

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year

The work covers a broad range of everyday activities throughout the 1940s, including movies, radio programming, music, the birth of commercial television, adver

The decades after World War II were a golden age across much of the world. It was a time of economic miracles, an era when steady jobs were easy to find and fam

The fifth volume of A History of the Book in America addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the presen