Our Towns: Remembering Coummunity in Indiana [Hardcover]

John E. Bodnar (Author)

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Hardcover: 218 pages
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society (April 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0871951495
ISBN-13: 978-0871951496
Product Dimensions: 28.9 x 22.4 x 2.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,277,637 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Book Description

For 20 years, the Indiana University Oral History Center collected interviews from hundreds of people who lived in Indiana for most of the twentieth century. John Bodnar discovered in these interviews a unique opportunity to examine the true nature of Indiana communities in the early part of the century. Did a fundamental notion of community actually exist in the shared consciousness of those questioned? What were its values? When and how did it change? How did it differ from nostalgic depictions such as Thornton WilderÍs Our Town?

About the Author

John Bodnar, professor of history and director of the Oral History Research Center at IU, is the author of several books including Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century (1992), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.