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The Age of Astonishment: John Morris in the Miracle Century?From the Civil War to the Cold War

An acclaimed journalist and novelist?makes history personal,?painting a rich and vivid portrait of the time when America become modern by tracing the life of one man who lived through it.It all began with a black-and-white family snapshot of a?distinguished elderly gentleman with a fine head?of?spun-sugar hair. He was wearing round, tortoise-shell glasses, a three-piece suit and an expression?of?delight mixed with terror, for on his right knee he was balancing a swaddled infant with a? bewildered look. The baby is Bill morris, the?man is his father?s father, John Morris. That photo, taken in November 1952, the month the United States detonated the first hydrogen bomb, a weapon a thousand times more powerful than the atom bombs that incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Three years later, John Morris?died at the?age?of?92. Bill has no?memories?of?the man, but even as a boy he found himself marveling at the changes John must have witnessed and experienced in his long lifetime.? ?He was

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