One Summer: America, 1927

One Summer: America, 1927

<b>A <i>Chicago Tribune</i> Noteworthy Book<br>A GoodReads Reader's Choice<br><br></b> The summer of 1927 began with Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Babe Ruth was closing in on the home run record. In Newark, New Jersey, Alvin €œShipwreck€ Kelly sat atop a flagpole for twelve days, and in Chicago, the gangster Al Capone was tightening his grip on bootlegging. The first true €œtalking picture,€ Al Jolson€s <i>The Jazz Singer</i>, was filmed, forever changing the motion picture industry. <br>        All this and much, much more transpired in the year Americans attempted and accomplished outsized things€"and when the twentieth century truly became the American century. <i>One Summer</i> transforms it all into narrative nonfiction of the highest order.