One Summer; America, 1927 by Bryson, Bill

Doubleday Canada 978-385-66165-2 [978-385-66165-2] 2013, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 509pp. Very good plus in near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. The bottom end of the spine is gently worn. "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". Book about Charles Lindbergh & Babe Ruth. Locale: Mount Rushmore; United States. (History--United States, Great Depression, Movies, Popular Culture, Television).