Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America Best Read || [Donald R. Katz] - Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America, Home Fires An Intimate Portrait of One Middle Class Family in Postwar America Home Fires is a brilliant chronicle of the cultural transformations of postwar America as reflected in the experiences of Sam and Eve Gordon and of their four children who grow up to shatter their p
- Title: Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America
- Author: Donald R. Katz
- ISBN: 9780060995027
- Page: 367
- Format: Paperback
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Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America Best Read || [Donald R. Katz]
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Listening to newly released audio at the moment very moving for me as this is my family I ve read the book twice The first time I noticed all the errors and inconsistencies The second time I was fascinated and delighted to have such a wonderfully detailed record the likes of which few people are so lucky to have Listening to the audio now that both Eve Gordon my dear Nanny and Lorraine my mom are no longer alive Lorraine died this year, quite suddenly is tremendously moving and I ve been crying [...]
Home Fires An Intimate Portrait of One American Family in post war America, by Donald Katz with a new introduction written and narrated by Jonathan Alter, and a epilogue type ending by son Ricky Ian Gordon telling us what happened to the family, and read by him The main book is narrated very well by Joe Barrett.Produced by Donald Katz, Downloaded from audible.This book is long and extremely riveting and for me very emotional as it encompasses in one way or another most of the events of my own li [...]
My wife doesn t like non ficiton and I don t like fiction This audio book was the perfect compromise for us because it reads as good as any fiction book, but also tells the story about America from 1945 to 1993 It s a very good way for my wife to understand the quotidian history of America during that time period in the guise of marvelous story telling The author takes the story within one family and relates the current events to what s happening at the time For example, Debbie Reynolds losing E [...]
I loved this book, the story of one family from the 1940 s through the 1970 s Even if the characters were trying and the fads unending, the nostalgia and sense of been there, done that was ever present.A post World War II family in New York raises four children in suburban Long Island Middle class and Jewish, the three sisters and one brother go through the 1960 s trying drugs, living in ashrams, experimenting with sexuality, religion, parenting, etc.While some of the characters were difficult t [...]
Fascinating Family SagaFifty years in the life of an American family, a year by year story of the life of that family mom, dad, four kids three girls and one boy, that reads like the best kind of multi generational fiction The family experiences everything the fifties, sixties and seventies can throw at them from drug abuse to social unrest and comes out the other end wiser and actually happy That the family is Jewish made the story resonate with me but the problems and issues the family faces t [...]
Another one of those books that sat on the shelf way too long The true saga of the Gordon family from the end of WWII through 1992 The parents leave New York City for Long Island and their baby boomer children deal, with varying levels of success, with coming of age during the Vietnam war, and the rise of drugs, psychotherapy, feminism, yogis and other signs many interpreted as harbingers of the end times Remarkable portrait of a family and lessons learned the hard way.
This is a simple but ambitious concept to follow a single family from 1945 to the 1990s Every year gets a chapter The book gradually unspools the story of the Gordon family, a Jewish World II vet who becomes an electrician, his partner, who was a singer before becoming his wife, their three daughters, and their son, in meticulous detail While doing this, it also tells the story of the changes in the country over the same time It feels like a non corny version of Forest Gump It s a long book, and [...]
This was a great read Donald Katz traces the course of a family over 50 years and weaves it in with the cultural and historical events of the time The family is incredible individual members manage to get themselves right in the middle of crazy historical goings on on a pretty consistent basis Woodstock, wine with Bob Dylan, meeting Joni Mitchell, marrying a founder of Rolling Stone, etc.Some of the sociological context can go a little long, but it s mostly very interesting, and the stories abou [...]
I couldn t stop reading this A man returns home from WWII, to give his family the good life he never had His four children run smack into the 1960s and go bonkers on him, and he and his wife wonder what the hell happened You name it, they did it Join a cult commune, become a junky and pass out at the Thanksgiving dinner table, announce their homosexuality, go to Woodstock, give their kids weird names, be in on the beginning of Rolling Stone magazine when not in rehab , move to San Francisco and [...]
A really interesting idea a non fiction narrative in which a reporter goes deep on one family and writes about everything they went through over four decades I m not convinced it worked, but I remember being in awe of the ambition When I was younger, everything seemed ambitious, but the early 90s had a lot of ambitious journalistic books like this Tracy Kidder Richard Ben Cramer s What It Takes, etc.
I loved this book when it came out I related to the family growing up in a Long Island town next to where I grew up and I loved the social history woven in Now I am reading it 20 plus years later and I can t believe how differently I feel about it I can t stand the family, and the social history is inserted awkwardly and actually disrupts the narrative rather than enhances it.
An amazing bit of social history The author tells the true story of one family in Long Island during the last half of the 20th Century In the midst of a thoroughly engaging family drama he manages to touch on major cultural currents and changes to the American psyche and the American family A really good read.
Excellent commentary on the social scene of the 1960 s Enlightening The book is about an ordinary family based on interviews with the family and significant people in their lives More pain than joy, it is tough to listen to at times.
This is the true story of a Long Island family comprised of Depression era parents with baby boomer kids who come of age in the 1960s Generations clash as the young adults reject the lifestyle and values that the parents worked so hard to provide.
Didn t finish interesting but tome like
I really enjoyed this It was like re living my life and times.Anyone cool between the ages of 50s 70swill relate Everyone else will learn something.
Fascinating insight into the lives of a mainstream family of our parents and grandparents generation Reads like fiction.