Once Upon a Time: The Way America Was
by Eric Sloane
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Author: Eric SloaneEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-08-23
ISBN: 0486444112
Number of pages: 64
Publisher: Dover Publications
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Book Review: One Of My Favorites Since I Was Little
Summary: 5 Stars
How can I possibly be the first person to review a book this magnificent? I love this book, and anyone with an ounce of curiosity about the past will as well. In here, Mr. Sloane, an antiquarian with a talent for making his love of the past infectious, tells us all about how Americans used to be hard working, efficient and self sustaining, how they made almost everything by hand and from scratch, and how the knowledge of arts and crafts from tool-making to house building, were passed down by word of mouth. On every page the reader learns some delightfully amazing new fact and by the book's end, a sense of enthusiasm and appreciation for our forebears is firmly established. Great illustrations are also a nice plus and the patient reverence Sloane has for this nation as it was two centuries ago bespeaks of sincerity, not empty lip-service. A fine book to read to a child, to look at for its pictures, or one that can teach almost any "grown-up" a thing or two about the ways things were. If you own this book and haven't read it in a while, take a quiet night off and reacquaint yourself with all it has to offer.
Summary of Once Upon a Time: The Way America Was
This nostalgic text brims with gentle philosophies and descriptions of how we used to live ? self-sufficiently ? on land, in homes, and among things built by hand. The author's charming illustrations celebrate our heritage and the spirit that nurtured it, but also recall the vanished joys of America's pioneer past. 44 line illustrations.
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