United States History - 20th Century - General & Miscellaneous, U.S. Travel - General & Regional, United States Studies, United States History - 20th Century - 1945 to 2000, United States History - General & Miscellaneous, Travel - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
In the early 1980s, journalist Nicholas Lemann decided to find out what had happened to some of the people and places the Standard Oil photographs record. First published in 1983, Out of the Forties is at once a compilation of the stories he heard and a portrait of a nation that has seen the strong yet sometimes repressive bonds of family and community give way to the greater prosperity and personal freedom of subsequent decades.Editorials
The New York Times
In this antidote to sentimental memoirs, Nicholas Lemann manages to mingle nostalgia with bitterness, anger with pride...."Out of the Forties" proceeds like a series of mystery stories...Lemann combines arresting photographs of the 1940s with his own inspired detective work of the 1980s. The photographs are clues; Mr. Lemann's stories become the solutions... The images assault, caress, beckon, haunt. -- The New York TimesBook Details
Published
April 30, 1998
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pages
152
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781560987727