Just imagine being a sixteen-year-old child in 1900, compared to a sixteen year-old child in 2000, and the advancements that resulted in changes not only in the

Offers a collection of memoirs from centenarians whose long lives chronicle the changing world of twentieth-century America

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Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the Unit