Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of a Middle Class Family in Post War America - Hardcover

Katz, Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060190094 ISBN 13: 9780060190095

Publisher: Harper Business, 1992

Synopsis

An account of one family's experiences in postwar America chronicles their cultural transformation through a flight to suburbia, materialism, and the sixties counterculture, describing where they are today

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Review

"Home Fires became my favorite book, one of those seminal pieces of literature that shaped my identity and made me want to be a writer . . . what makes [it] stand out is the masterful way that Mr. Katz weaves together the family’s history with the history of the time . . . [plus], it’s a hell of a story." New York Observer

About the Author

Donald Katz is founder and CEO of Audible, Inc., the leading provider of premium digital spoken audio information and entertainment on the Internet. Prior to founding Audible, Katz was a journalist and author for twenty years; his work won a National Magazine Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, among other prizes.

Katz graduated from New York University in 1974, where he studied with novelist Ralph Ellison. Mr. Katz is married, the father of three children, and an avid ice hockey player.

Jonathan Alter is an author, journalist,and television commentator. Since 1983, he has been a correspondent and columnist for Newsweek. He is also an analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, where he appears three or four times a week. Alter is the author of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, a national bestseller, and The Promise: President Obama, Year One, which went to number four on the New York Times bestseller list and was named one of the one hundred "Notable Books of the Year" by the Times. He is also the author of Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, Media and Culture, a collection of his Newsweek columns. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey with his wife, Emily Lazar, a producer for The Colbert Report, and their three children, Charlotte, Tommy and Molly.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper Business
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060190094
• ISBN 13: 9780060190095
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576