One Summer - America 1927

Transworld Publishers, London, 2013. Good secondhand copy.

It is a little hard to imagine now, but Americans in the 1920s had grown up in a world in which most of the most important things happened in Europe. Now suddenly America was dominant in nearly every field - in popular culture, finance and banking, military might, invention and technology. The centre of gravity for the planet was moving to the other side of the world, and Charles Lindbergh's flight somehow became the culminating expression of that...