What a great interest in U.S. history of the 1900's! The past century has seen powerful events.
Here are a few thoughts:
1) Not FICTION, but may be of interest:
This Fabulous Century by Time/Life books
2) Novel about three doctors during the Korean War:
MASH, which was the basis for the long-running TV series M*A*S*H.
3) Historial fiction in the Jazz era:
Bud, Not Buddy.
4) If you become a fan of "The Great Gatsby", there is an adorable
miniature keepsake edition, made by
miniboox, Miniaturbuchverlag Leipzig located in Simbach, Germany.
5) Fortunately a lot has been learned from Woodstock so that concerts are planned differently. Unfortunately, Woodstock may sometimes be romanticized or idealized, but some say it was both a financial ruin and a public health hazard. Woodstock is the misnomer of the outdoor music festival held some 70 miles away from
Woodstock, NY in White Lake (Bethel, NY) on the dairy farm of
Max Yasgur. This discrepancy between the festival name and location is because several of the landowners who were originally contacted did not want to rent their fields for the concert, and with good reason: there was
logistically not enough infrastructure, food, water, shelter, sanitation, etc for the type of event planned. There are youtube videos with actual footage and news coverage. A book which may be of interest is
Are You Experienced? by J Sonnenblick. (Attempts to add links to the amazon webpage and the author's website were unsuccessful as these were caught in the forum's SPAM filter, possibly due to the author's first name. I mention this because interested readers may wish to look up the author's website and amazon webpage, although they are not linked here, and view the book's synopsis and comments.)
I'll update this later if more titles come to mind.
