When the Century Was Young Author:Dee Brown Dee Brown was born in 1908 in a small Louisiana town where little had changed since Reconstruction, and from the beginning, he seemed destined to be a key witness to many of this century's dramas. Here are his recollections of his own growing pains and those of the town and country in which he grew up. We follow him through his larger-than-life ... more »childhood, from his first job as a special delivery boy bearing the dreaded weight of the Sears catalogs, to buying his first printing press and publishing a weekly called the 'Live Wire' for his Boy Scout troop, to his fledgling adolescent career in mail-order fraud and his first job as a bona fide journalist. He offers vivid glimpses of his life in Washington during the early days of Roosevelt's New Deal, brought to an end when he is is drafted for service in World War II and the army loses his unit's orders for the better part of a year. More important, we follow the life and times of the man who would go on to write 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee', one of this century's most important historical documents.
With a natural storyteller's flair, a penetrating eye for the telling detail, and a highly developed sense of irony toward the absurdities of modern life, Brown has drawn a masterful portrait that promises to become a classic.« less