by Rasenberger, Jim
Life in America in 1908 was both radically different and achingly familiar to living a century later. It certainly was an eventful year. Not only were the Wright Brothers peddling their Flyer in markets at home and abroad but Cook and Peary were racing each other to the North Pole. Each has his partisans to this day. The public was fascinated by an automobile race across three continents where the roads in America were as bad as those in Siberia. The handcrafted motor cars in the race would be rendered extinct by Henry Ford?s assembly line just then cranking up. Meanwhile sixteen US Navy battleships painted white were traversing the globe on a goodwill ?Big Stick? tour.
- reviewed by John, Main Library, PLCMC

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by Rasenberger, Jim
Life in America in 1908 was both radically different and achingly familiar to living a century later. It certainly was an eventful year. Not only were the Wright Brothers peddling their Flyer in markets at home and abroad but Cook and Peary were racing each other to the North Pole. Each has his partisans to this day. The public was fascinated by an automobile race across three continents where the roads in America were as bad as those in Siberia. The handcrafted motor cars in the race would be rendered extinct by Henry Ford?s assembly line just then cranking up. Meanwhile sixteen US Navy battleships painted white were traversing the globe on a goodwill ?Big Stick? tour.
- reviewed by John, Main Library, PLCMC

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