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Oh, Beautiful: An American Family In The 20th Century (2010)

by John Paul Godges(Favorite Author)

4.18 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1451508018 (ISBN13: 9781451508017)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

CreateSpace

review 1: This is an amazingly touching family story of a seemingly ordinary American family whose lives encompass so many of the struggles of the 20th CEntury -- the Viet Nam warm, the roles of women, the struggles within the Catholic Church, homosexuality and mental illness. The six children of a WWII veteran and Polish immigrant ran the gamut of modern day crises of conscience, morality and self determination yet they stayed closely knit and firmly supportive of one another despite some major family rifts. Very interestingly told and a real time capsule of growing up in America in the mid- to late 20th Century.
review 2: This is a story that will resonant with every American. Godges recounts his family story through three generations. From Italian and Polish immig... morerants in the early 1900s to the stories of himself and his siblings growing up in the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. There is a lot to like about this book. Each character's story exemplifies some quintessential part of the American experience and when brought together tells not only the story of changing events and opinions in America during the previous century, but also of the evolution within a family on what it means to be American. Each American has their own family story immigration and assimilation and by sharing his family story, Godges expresses one piece of the puzzle of what it means to be American. less

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