The good years From 1900 to the First World War
by Walter Lord
- New York Harper & Brothers 1960
- 369 p.
Includes Index
These were the good years -- 1900 : A new year -- 1900 : The fumbling imperialists -- 1901 : A good man's death -- 1902 : Big stick, big business -- 1903 : The whopper flying machine -- 1905 : The golden circus -- 1906 : The town that refused to die -- 1907 : Trial of a union man -- 1907 : Panic -- 1908-9 : The great white fleet -- 1909 : The dash to the pole -- 1910-12 : The cosmopolites -- 1912 : Women triumphant -- 1912 : Big man off campus -- 1913 : Children at work -- 1914 : The last summer -- Published material.
This is about the years from the turn of the century to the First World War, when for a span of time that was never going to end Americans enjoyed the best of all possible worlds.