Inventing Modern: Growing Up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins by John H. Lienhard

Inventing Modern: Growing Up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins

John H. Lienhard

292 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective slow-paced
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Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Moder...

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