People's Century:: The Ordinary Men and Women Who Made the Twentieth Century

by Godfrey Hodgson

Replete with more than fifteen thousand full-color illustrations and maps, the companion book to the twenty-six-part public television series beginning in April 1998 chronicles the role of ordinary people in the century's history. 20,000 first printing. TV tie-in.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

636 pages, Hardcover

First published September 14, 1995

About the author

Godfrey Hodgson was a White House correspondent for a London newspaper with a desk in the Washington Post newsroom during the Kennedy and Johnson years. He has worked as a reporter for print and television throughout the United States and has written sixteen books, most dealing with people and issues in American politics. He taught at Oxford University and lives in Oxfordshire, U.K.

Reviews

[Alexandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

OK, so I skipped the Weimar and WW2 bits mostly - I skim-read and looked at the pictures. But I read the pre-WW2 stuff mostly, and the Cold War stuff too; I even underlined and wrote a few notes in the margin to remember things for next year! Interesting to see just how closely it sits to the TV programme, which is very. It's not that in-depth, but I think it's a good overview, and I really do like the comments and quotes from Ordinary People.

One thing, though - talking about colonised places and attitudes towards Europe - it says that the US had avoided being colonised. What - ?? I had to re-read that section a couple of times to check that it really was saying what I thought it was saying. Yes indeed, it said that the US had not been colonised, and then goes on to talk about treatment of Native Americans (in scant detail). My head is still reeling from that one.

[Chris Brimmer · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is good stuff.