Reviews

"Written in the liveliest historical prose I have come across in a long while...[illustrated with] a gallery of images, striking in its variety and pungency, representative without being hackneyed"
--David S. Reynolds, "N.Y. Times Book Review
"This is history to enjoy, engagingly written, splendidly illustrated" --Neil Sheehan, author of "A Bright and Shining Lie
"In a style at once trenchant and easygoing, Harold Evans leads us on a walk through the century now drawing to a close, taking us back over ground that far too many of us have let slip from our memories" --Shelby Foote, author of "The Civil War
"An astute, evocative, challenging, wonderfully readable and gloriously illustrated history" --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
"Major and inspiring" "-Vartan Gregorian
"A wide-ranging, politically detached view of the shaping events of the century. It is excellent prose with wonderful pictures. I much enjoyed it, as I think will all" --John Kenneth Galbraith
"A book every family should have" --General Colin L. Powell, (Rtd.)
"A sumptuous memory-book of an astonishing time" --Geoffrey C. Ward