Time Capsule 1927 - A History of the Year Condensed from the Pages of Time

The year 1927 was full of momentous events both in the US and abroad. But not even Babe Ruth's 60th home run or the firing of Leon Trotsky by Joseph Stalin would have the same dramatic effect on history that was created by a young airmail pilot named Charles Lindbergh who flew alone across the Atlantic to Paris. Lindbergh's feat electrified the entire world, and brought the US almost immediately into the air age. Time Capsule/1927 is one of a series of volumes, each adapted and condensed from a year's contents of Time, the Weekly Newsmagazine. The words, except for a few connecting passages, are those of the magazine itself, and therefore reflect the flavour, the attitudes and the state of knowledge of the day - sometimes innocent, sometimes opinionated, sometimes prescient...