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Author: Todd Brewster
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Imprint: Scribner Book Company
Dimensions:
Width: 22.60cm
, Height: 4.60cm
, Length: 26.90cm
Weight: 1.520kg
ISBN: 9781501124884
ISBN 10: 1501124889
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 23 May 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""In his 1802 poem (chauvinistically wedded to only one gender) Wordsworth wrote, 'The Child is father of the Man.' One sees all of this and more in Brewster's stirring book. It celebrates--in every image and comment--potentiality and hope."" --Ken Burns, filmmaker and author of Our America: A Photographic History ""Visually enchanting, offering glimpses into the passion, play, banality, and trauma of childhood."" --Booklist ""A photographic celebration of American childhood . . . [offers] captivating glimpses of children's lives . . . like paging through an album from a sprawling, blended family."" --Kirkus Reviews"
"""Fantastic. . . . Captures the ever-changing experience of growing up in America through a collection of over 200 photographs."" --George Stephanopoulos ""From the 19th century to the present, the photos collected in Todd Brewster's latest book offer glimpses into the lives of our nation's youngest members."" --New York Times Book Review ""In his 1802 poem (chauvinistically wedded to only one gender) Wordsworth wrote, 'The Child is father of the Man.' One sees all of this and more in Brewster's stirring book. It celebrates--in every image and comment--potentiality and hope."" --Ken Burns, filmmaker and author of Our America: A Photographic History ""Visually enchanting, offering glimpses into the passion, play, banality, and trauma of childhood."" --Booklist ""A photographic celebration of American childhood . . . [offers] captivating glimpses of children's lives . . . like paging through an album from a sprawling, blended family."" --Kirkus Reviews"
"""From the 19th century to the present, the photos collected in Todd Brewster's latest book offer glimpses into the lives of our nation's youngest members."" --New York Times Book Review ""In his 1802 poem (chauvinistically wedded to only one gender) Wordsworth wrote, 'The Child is father of the Man.' One sees all of this and more in Brewster's stirring book. It celebrates--in every image and comment--potentiality and hope."" --Ken Burns, filmmaker and author of Our America: A Photographic History ""Visually enchanting, offering glimpses into the passion, play, banality, and trauma of childhood."" --Booklist ""A photographic celebration of American childhood . . . [offers] captivating glimpses of children's lives . . . like paging through an album from a sprawling, blended family."" --Kirkus Reviews"
Author Information
Todd Brewster is a veteran journalist and historian who has worked as an editor for Time and Life and as a senior producer for ABC News. He is the coauthor, with Peter Jennings, of the #1 New York Times bestselling book, The Century, which spent nearly a year on the bestseller list, the author of the acclaimed Lincoln's Gamble, and coauthor, with Marc Lamont Hill, of Seen and Unseen; Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice. Brewster was the founding director of Center for Oral History at West Point and the executive producer of Into Harm's Way, an award-winning documentary about the West Point Class of 1967. He has taught journalism at Cooper Union, Temple University, and Mount Holyoke College. A native of Indianapolis, Brewster now lives in Connecticut.
