Bøker av Charles J. Shindo

When Charles Lindbergh landed at LeBourget Airfield on May 21, 1927, his transatlantic flight symbolized the new era - not only in aviation but also in American culture. This book offers a dissection of the year that has come to represent the apex of 1920s culture.

This work aims to show how public memory of the dust bowl migration has been dominated by a handful of artists and would-be reformers. The text examines images from photography, fiction, film and song and marks off the distances between these representations and the realities of migrant life.