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

Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-class Family in Postwar America
ISBN-10
0060995025
ISBN-13
9780060995027
Series
Home Fires
Category
History
Pages
619
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
Perennial
Author
Donald R. Katz

Description

The bestselling, masterful account of one American family's passage through the turbulent landscape of the postwar era, 1945-1990, illuminating the interplay between private life and the profound cultural changes of the times.

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