{"id":6483,"date":"2013-12-30T09:42:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T17:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/?p=6483"},"modified":"2013-12-30T09:42:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T17:42:19","slug":"one-summer-america-1927-bill-bryson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/2013\/12\/30\/one-summer-america-1927-bill-bryson\/","title":{"rendered":"One Summer: America, 1927, Bill Bryson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 136px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.last.fm\/music\/Bill%2BBryson');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Bill%2BBryson\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Bill Bryson\" alt=\"Bill Bryson\" src=\"http:\/\/userserve-ak.last.fm\/serve\/126\/202083.jpg\" width=\"126\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover of Bill Bryson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One Summer: America, 1927, <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.billbryson.co.uk');\" class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bill Bryson\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.billbryson.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Bill Bryson<\/a>. ISBN\u00a0 9780385537827. 2013.\u00a0 Fascinating breakdown of America in the summer of 1927.\u00a0 <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Babe_Ruth');\" class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Babe Ruth\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Babe_Ruth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Babe Ruth<\/a> and <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.lougehrig.com\/');\" class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Lou Gehrig\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.lougehrig.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Lou Gehrig<\/a>, Coolidge and Hoover, Prohibition, <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jimmy_Walker');\" class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Jimmy Walker\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jimmy_Walker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Jimmy Walker<\/a>, <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/en\/al_capone');\" class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Al Capone\"  href=\"http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/en\/al_capone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"rdf\">Capone<\/a> and <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arnold_Rothstein');\" class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Arnold Rothstein\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arnold_Rothstein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Arnold Rothstein<\/a>,\u00a0 <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=43.8789472222,-103.459825&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=43.8789472222,-103.459825 (Mount%20Rushmore)&amp;t=h');\" class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mount Rushmore\"  href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=43.8789472222,-103.459825&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=43.8789472222,-103.459825 (Mount%20Rushmore)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Mt Rushmore<\/a> and Charles Lindburgh. Hollywood, Henry Ford\u00a0 and Jews,, Its a history book ad American ethnography, Dirty linen and naivete, Ignorance, bigotry and eugenics. 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Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, Coolidge and Hoover, Prohibition, Jimmy Walker, Capone and Arnold Rothstein,  Mt Rushmore and Charles Lindburgh. Hollywood and Jews,, Its a history book ad American ethnography, Dirty linen and naivete, Ignorance, bigotry and eugenics. Charlatans and inspiration.  Another winner from Mr Bryson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289],"tags":[1984,1982,1980,56,1985,1983,1981,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6491,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483\/revisions\/6491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}