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| #360292 in Books | Melville House Publishing | 2014-10-07 | 2014-10-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.76 x5.32l,.81 | File type: PDF | 272 pages | Melville House Publishing||58 of 62 people found the following review helpful.| An entertainment (for some), not a serious work of history|By Henry Cohen|This book is divided into the 12 months of 1913, and each month has dozens of sections, each section ranging from one sentence to a few pages in length. The sections jump back and forth from one historical figure to another. Although I found some of the book's anecdotes interesting or amusing, I found t||Praise for 1913||“A vivid, richly textured book that chronicles a world crackling with talent, energy and foreboding. The pace and scale of activity is at times breathtaking . . . Illies’ talent is to weave all this together in
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Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . .
It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the year Louis Armstrong first picked up a trumpet. It was the year Charlie Chaplin signed his first movie contract, and Coco Chanel and Prada opened their first dr...
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