Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America - Softcover

Katz, Donald R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060995025 ISBN 13: 9780060995027

Publisher: Perennial, 1993

Synopsis

Home Fires is a brilliant chronicle of the cultural transformations of postwar America as reflected in the experiences of Sam and Eve Gordon, and of their four children, who grow up to shatter their parents' American Dream. Katz deftly juxtaposes day-to-day family life with landmark public events to create a rich and revealing portrait of America from FDR to Bush. Photographs.

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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: Perennial
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060995025
• ISBN 13: 9780060995027
• Binding: Paperback