A Thread of Years John Lukacs

Distinguished historian John Lukacs here presents a series of vignettes of daily life mostly in the United States but also in England, Ireland, and Europe during ordinary and extraordinary times between 1901 to 1969. Together these vignettes become a poignant history of manners and mores that shows the decline of a civilization. Lukacs couples each episode with a discussion of why he has chosen these details to relate, thereby also providing insight into historiographical thinking.

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