One Summer: America 1927 pdf

威廉·麦加里（William McGurry，1951 年 12 月 8 日－）是一位英裔美国作家，创作主题包括旅行、英语和科学的非小说类书籍。他出生于美国，成年后大部分时间居住在英国，1995 年至 2003 年返回美国，同时拥有美国和英国公民身份。他于 2005 年至 2011 年担任杜伦大学校长。

Bryson 通过出版和伴随电视连续剧《小岛笔记》（1995 年）对英国的探索而在英国声名鹊起。他因出版《几乎所有事物的简史》（2003 年）而再次获得广泛认可，这本书因其易于理解的学术交流而广受赞誉。 2020年10月，他宣布他已经“退休”了写书。

One Summer: America 1927 pdf 比尔布赖森

In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth. 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, the thrillingly improbable return to greatness of over-the-hill baseball player Babe Ruth, and an almost impossible amount more. In this hugely entertaining book, Bill Bryson spins a tale of brawling adventure, reckless optimism and delirious energy. With the trademark brio, wit and authority that make him Britain's favourite writer of narrative non-fiction, he brings to life a forgotten summer when America came of age, took centre stage, and changed the world.