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by Ernie Pyle
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Ernie Pyle wrote people as well as it could be done. This book is a really nice series of snapshots of America in the 1930's.
Ernie Pyle is famous for his interviews with soldiers overseas during WWII, but this is a book about America. He and his wife traveled America, sending in interviews and this is a collection of those. Humerus, interesting and informative about America before WWII and lifestyles of common folks. Poignant as well.
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- Home Country
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- Ernie Pyle
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- I don't know whether you know that long, sad wind that blows so steadily across the thousands of miles of Mid-west flatlands in the summertime. If you don't, it will be hard for you to understand the feeling I have about it.... (show all) even if you do know it, you may not understand.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And we still love all those places because we always had to leave before the sweet taste could turn to vinegar. And also before they could find out about us, and kick us out.
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- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 973.917 — History & geography History of North America United States 1901- World Wars and Depression Era (1901-1953) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1937) New Deal, Social Security Act
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- E169 .P93 — History of the United States United States General
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