Donald R. Katz
Author of Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America
About the Author
Donald Katz is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and has been a contributor to The New Republic. Esquire, Outside, Sports Illustrated, and Men's Journal. His work has won and been nominated for several National Magazine Awards. Katz is the founder of Audible, Inc.
Works by Donald R. Katz
Guru of the New Economy 1 copy
Associated Works
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (2000) — Contributor — 234 copies
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It is amazing that the Gordon family permitted the author to share the intimate details of the lives of the four generations of this family. Anyone, especially those who have lived in New York or the various places the families have lived will compare their own experiences as they read along. Interfacing national events of the the time, popular books (I even remember reading Crack in the Picture Window in 1957) and music, plays and musicals of the times)with events of the families lives demonstrates how in fact we Americans have been so affected by these national and new technological trends as we have moved along. Today Facebook and social networks would be included as the difficult political times. My immediate reaction was to formulate in my own mind families of my few close friends as well as of course my own. In a way I guess in total extended families in the US are like this. The happy ending in Florida is really nice.… (more)