{"product_id":"an-american-hometown-9780253221292","title":"An American Hometown","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCelebrates a bygone American era, focusing on life in 1920s Terre Haute, Indiana.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Roznowski has deployed the 1927 City Directory of Terre Haute like a mist net across time to catch a vanished place. An American Hometown is part Akenfield—Robert Blythe's portrait of an English village—and part Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology. Terre Haute, 1927, is more alive than many American cities today.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Howard Mansfield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Roznowski brings the lost world of a city back to life, and in so doing asks us to re-imagine the way we live now. December 2009\/January 2010\u003c\/p\u003e * Bloom Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Roznowski, the pursuit of the past is not an exercise in nostalgia, but an attempt to bring wisdom forward—to learn not just from our mistakes as a culture, but from the things we did right as well, and then left by the wayside in the 20th century's mad dash to a consumerist, automobile-centered society.February\/March 2010\u003c\/p\u003e * Bloom *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoznowski is an evocative, romantic storyteller, and his research revives a simpler time and place not far from here. March 28, 2010\u003c\/p\u003e * The Herald Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Scott Russell Sanders\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbel Manufacturing Company—to—Robert Axlander\u003cbr\u003eBachelor Club—to—Roxie Byrd\u003cbr\u003eBarden Calloway—to—John Crowe\u003cbr\u003eDaphne Confectionary—to—Lemon H. Dunn\u003cbr\u003eTilatha East—to—Mary Euriga\u003cbr\u003eEthel Failing—to—Emma Fyfe\u003cbr\u003eJames H. Gallian—to—Flora G. Gulick\u003cbr\u003eJoseph A. Haddox—to—Frances Hughes\u003cbr\u003eJosephine Ice—to—Abe Issac\u003cbr\u003eMary Jackman—to—William R. Joyce\u003cbr\u003eAlbert Kaeling—to—Lillian Kuhn\u003cbr\u003eMinnie Mayme Lacy—to—Lena B. Lyda\u003cbr\u003eAlbert McBride—to—Ernestine Myers Dancing Academy\u003cbr\u003eAgnes Nairn—to—North Baltimore Bottle Glass Company\u003cbr\u003eHarry E. Oaf—to—James Osler\u003cbr\u003eMabel P. Paine—to—Arvella Pushback\u003cbr\u003eThe Quality Shop—to—Jacob Ryan\u003cbr\u003eSt. Joseph's Academy—to—Marcella Swim\u003cbr\u003eElmer E. Talbott—to—Alice Twadell\u003cbr\u003eJacob Umble—to—Alm Utz\u003cbr\u003eOhmer D. Vance—to—Robert T. Vrydagh\u003cbr\u003eClarence W. Wagner—to—John Wright\u003cbr\u003eIvan Yates—to—George A. Zwerner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400661213527,"sku":"9780253221292","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253221292.jpg?v=1730471233","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-american-hometown-9780253221292","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}