The GI Generation: A Memoir

Mathias, Frank F.

ISBN 10: 0813121574 / ISBN 13: 9780813121574

Published by University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2000

About this Item

8vo, 267 pp., Signed by the author on the title page., Several pages in the center portion of the text block have a stain near the top edge, not affecting any text; otherwise fine. Nearly fine copy in fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 096233

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The GI Generation: A Memoir
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813121574
• ISBN 13: 9780813121574
• Binding: hardcover
• Illustrator: Illus. with photos
• Edition: 1st.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History

About this title

Synopsis

A portrait of a bucolic Kentucky boyhood, this work takes readers back to an era when boys rustled watermelons under the hot summer sun, and young lovers danced to the sounds of farmhouse bands.

Review

"An affectionate and nostalgic memoir." -- Ohio History

"Winner of the 2001 Ohioana Book for nonfiction." --

"This memoir is an important reminder that urban life is not the only life: it reveals, for instance, that for people living close to their needs and far from the command-posts of the cash economy, a thing like the Great Depression could be largely irrelevant. Frank Mathias respectfully renders small-town history as a worthy piece of something larger: ourselves. America." -- "Barbara Kingsolver"

"A trip down memory lane. Filled with amusing and often poignant stories, it presents a picture of a kinder, less sophisticated, more moral society." -- "Bowling Green Daily News"

"Nowhere is what we've lost more poignantly apparent.... An insightful travelogue in time as well as place." -- "Cleveland Plain Dealer"

"Vividly recaptures the sights, sounds, smells, and very texture of small-town and rural life in the interwar years." -- "Journal of Southern History"

"A well-received collection of memoirs about what is being called the Greatest Generation." -- "Kettering-Oakwood (OH) Times"

"Vivid and accurate, poignant and funny, this is a marvelous picture of pre-war life whose readability is enhanced by its insights into what makes the American character." -- "Library Journal"

"An insightful look at what the 'Greatest Generation' was like before they fought and won the war." -- "Maysville Ledger-Independent"

"A memoir about the wondrous variety of daily life, even during the Depression years, that shaped the men and women of the era." -- "McCormick (SC) Messenger"