The century that was : reflections on the last one hundred years / edited and with an introduction by James Cross Giblin.
A collection of essays by well-known authors for young people, reflecting on various aspects of life in twentieth-century America, including politics, the environment, sports, fashion, and civil rights.
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New York :
Atheneum Books For Young Readers,
[2000]
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Table of Contents:
- Looking back at looking forward: predicting the twentieth century / Russell Freedman
- Immigrants all / Eve Bunting
- America's first world war / Albert Marrin
- A hundred years of wheels and wings / Jim Murphy
- The century babies became pros / Bruce Brooks
- Great strides: women in the twentieth century / Penny Colman
- The changing concept of civil rights in America / Walter Dean Myers
- Fashioning ourselves / Lois Lowry
- Politics--not just for politicians / Milton Meltzer
- Trust and obey: a personal look at twentieth-century religion / Katherine Paterson
- Heroes for the whole earth / Laurence Pringle.