L'estate in cui accadde tutto

n. 20 in Storia

L'estate in cui accadde tutto

Bill Bryson

Prima edizione 2013

8,18,1 / 10
Punteggio su 10116 valutazioniConfidenza 44%: questa parte del punteggio viene dai lettori stessi
#20 su 38 in Storia davanti al 49% della categoria
  • Bestseller del NYT · 9 settimane in classifica, posizione massima: n. 4

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Nel nostro Atlante

Bill Bryson
Stati Uniti
Apri l’Atlante

Il libro

In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest of the time), a semi-crazed sculptor with a mad plan to carve four giant heads into an inaccessible mountain called Rushmore, a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial and a youthful aviator named Charles Lindbergh who started the summer wholly unknown and finished it as the most famous man on earth (so famous that Minnesota consider renaming itself after him). It was the summer that saw the birth of talking pictures, the invention of television, the peak of Al Capone's reign of terror, the horrifying bombing of a school in Michigan by a madman, the ill-conceived decision that led the Great Depression, the thrillingly improbable return to greatness of a wheezing, over-the-hill baseball player named Babe Ruth and an almost impossible amount more. In this hugely entertaining book, Bill Bryson spins a story of brawling adventure, reckless optimism and delirious energy. With the trademark brio, wit and authority that have made him our favorite writer of narrative non-fiction, he rolls out an unforgettable cast of vivid and eccentric personalities to bring to life a forgotten summer when America came of age, took centre stage and changed the world forever.

Da dove viene il punteggio

Le fonti danno una media di 8,2 su 116 valutazioni, ancora poche: il voto dei lettori pesa il 44% e il resto tira verso la media di Storia (8,0). Da qui il 8,1.

FonteMediaValutazioniPeso
Open Library8,812 10%
Hardcover8,1104 90%

Se ti è piaciuto

Lo stesso scaffale — Storia — con punteggi tra 8,0 e 8,2, i più vicini a questo libro.