The Good Years: From 1900 to the First World War by Walter Lord
English | March 6th, 2012 | ASIN: B06XGJ2JBL, ISBN: 1131085159, 1163816833 | 412 Pages | EPUB | 3.05 MB
WALTER LORD NEVER STARTS FROM SCRATCH. For months before a word of this book was written, he could be found roaming the country, ferreting out the fascinating people who helped shape these years. One week it might be Elijah Baum, who piloted Wilbur Wright to his first lodgings at Kitty Hawkthe next, and old fireman who fought the flames at San Franciscothe next, some militant suffragette.

WALTER LORD NEVER STARTS FROM SCRATCH. For months before a word of this book was written, he could be found roaming the country, ferreting out the fascinating people who helped shape these years. One week it might be Elijah Baum, who piloted Wilbur Wright to his first lodgings at Kitty Hawkthe next, and old fireman who fought the flames at San Franciscothe next, some militant suffragette.

Even in his raids on old diaries, letters, memoirs and newspapers, Mr. Lord usually headed straight for the scene. He was as likely to be found in an attic with a flashlight as at a desk with a pencil. That's why the book is full of such fresh discoveries: secret Pinkerton reports on a famous murder, unpublished notes left by McKinley's physician, the caterer's instructions for Mrs. Astor's ball, and many other factors unknown to the participants themselves.

It's his loving attention to first-hand sources that makes Mr. Lord's books so vivid for the thousands who read them.