REMEMBER? REMEMBER? Nostalgia Pre WWII 1920s 30s 40s AMERICANA Vintage 1963 HC

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REMEMBER? REMEMBER? Nostalgia Pre WWII 1920s 30s 40s AMERICANA Vintage 1963 HC:
$20.00

RARE VINTAGE HARDCOVER WITH TIGHT BINDING AND CLEAN PAGES. NICE BOARDS WITH A LITTLE FRAYING AT HEAD AND FOOT OF SPINE. DUST JACKET IS FRAGILE AND SHOWS SIGNIFICANT WEAR, INCLUDING OPEN AND CLOSED TEARS (SEE PHOTOS). DJ HAS BEEN FITTED WITH A REMOVABLE MYLAR JACKET TO PREVENT FURTHER DAMAGE.

HARDCOVER

1963

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

248PAGES

REMEMBER? REMEMBER? by Charles Beaumont. A nostalgic backward glance at some of yesteryear\'s most beloved features of our national profile.

From the dust jacket:

\"Is there a soul (over forty, anyway) so dead that he cannot recall with a sharp twinge of nostalgia the things that thrilled and delighted him in the days of his youth? Such things as the Saturday-afternoon movie serial, the really funny comedians, radio in its heyday, pulp magazines, honest-to-God drugstores, Fourths of July and Halloweens before their emasculation, the glory of powerful old locomotives and luxury train travel, gorgeously vulgar movie palaces? These and other reminders of pre-World War II America are celebrated in this book, a lingering backward glance at many of the perhaps trivial but much beloved aspects of our culture that are no more.

Here are the snows of yesteryear - and Charles Beaumont, with warmth and wit and immaculate research builds for us a wonderful snowman. The late \'20\'s, \'30\'s, and very early 40\'s were for many of us the impressionable period of childhood and adolescence; it was, in a way, the adolescence of America, before maturity was thrust upon her. In those days the country was less sophisticated, more enthusiastic, frivolous and gay. Despite the Depression there was fun to be had, and people had it - a more wholesome and enjoyable kind of fun, Mr. Beaumont suggest, than is available today.

Memory will serve many readers, for whom these pages will be happy reminders of the past. For readers who could not have bought a drink on Pearl Harbor Day this book will provide a delightful reconstruction of many things that are familiar but were not experienced at first hand. Like the reminiscent volumes of Frederick Lewis Allen, Lloyd Morris, and Mark Sullivan,REMEMBER? REMEMBER?is instructive, but above all entertaining. \'Laughter,\' writes Beaumont, \'is the sound a nation makes when it is proud of its past and confident of its future.\' His book - a lovingly woven garland of obits - is full of laughter.\"

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