Search -
Dreamland: America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Dreamland America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Author:Michael Lesy A haunting look at America at the beginning of the century, fro ma cult favorite. A hit from coast to coast when it was published last year in hardcover, Michael Lesy's breathtaking view of the beginning of the twentieth century is now available in an affordable paperback edition. One of the most fascinating photographic explorations of the Amer... more »ican past in years, Dreamland features 200 photographs taken between 1900 and 1910 that capture the extraordinary vigor and high hopes of those years. The photographs were culled from a single postcard company collection by acclaimed photo historian Michael Lesy, whose cult hit Wisconsin Death Trip (1974) has been praised as "an American classic" by National Geographic and "a small masterpiece of the historian's art" by the Chicago Daily News.« less