Maisie moo’s Reviews > One Summer: America 1927 > Status Update

Amazing. Great way to wrap it up. So many plot twists and shocking information given to you with every storyline. Honestly could not remember all the names but could remember most of the situations. Amazing book. Highly recommend. Learnt a lot and started off with no interest in the matter and finished wanting to know more

The ending of the last chapter was amazing. It was like a short recap and showed Bryson’s purpose for the book which is that a lot of what happened in the summer of 1927 has gotten completely forgotten. Even though the most revolutionary things happened such as the invention of television, the nationwide use of radio picked up and a flight over the ocean began flying all over the globe today.

I am really starting to see Bryson’s humour now. He’s quite funny. The guy who played Dracula his whole career and then was buried dressed as his character is funny. and there was quite a few sarcastic remarks in chapter 27 & 28. Makes me wonder if I just didn’t catch them before.

America really has been a social experiment since the 1920’s. Laughlin being able to legally experiment and healthy people is crazy. Carrie Buck being sterilised and also her sister who had no idea she was going to or had been sterilised and was told she was getting treated for appendicitis. The world is a mad place. Or maybe just America?

Bryson is actually a bit funny chapter 22-23. It’s very subtle and easy to miss. Chapter 23 is by far my favourite chapter so far. The film industry. He spoke about Clara Bow, Warner Bros, Buster Keaton and so much more. I see why grandad likes him so much, if I could read a whole series of Brysons if they were write about things I find interesting and if he did it like that.

Learnt about Mount Rushmore, interesting. Mrs Wheeler died after being set on fire by cooking. Horrible way to go. And the two van sweringan brothers, feel like there should be a book written on them if there ain’t already. Very sad when Mantis died because Oris depended on him a lot. I’m surprised he lived 11 months without him.

Coolidge is useless. Boxing was brutal. Boxer who stopped and became and actor and was close with Charlie Chaplin. 14 year old witness to a robbery said “I could tell he was foreign because of how he ran” huh??

Fordlandia? What a silly thing. Wipe out an area the size of the state of Connecticut??? Madness. The amount of diseases and the maggots under the skin as well, discovering a new disease through the production is crazy. Harry Ford was a crazy, inhumane man.

Inflation was so bad that money someone could survive on previously, could then not even afford a cup of coffee??? I don’t think so.