Unspeakable Awfulness

Kenneth D. Rose teaches history at California State University, Chico. He is the author of Myth of the Greatest Generation: A Social History of Americans in World War II, One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture, and American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Character, Class, Dress, AdvertisingChapter 2: The Built Environment: Cities and Boosterism, Accomodations and TransportationChapter 3: Culture: Aesthetics, Language, Music, Humor, Copyright and JournalismChapter 4: Personal Habits: Dining, Drinking, Tobacco Chewing, and Gun UseChapter 5: Domestic Relations: Women, Men, Children and Their EducationChapter 6: Race, Immigration, and ReligionChapter 7: War, Politics, and PatriotismChapter 8: The West: Landscape, Human Inhabitants, and DeclineConclusion

"The book provides an excellent introduction to the 19th-century US following the Civil War, and thanks to the far-reaching number of topics and documented sources, inherently suggests numerous points of exploration for further study and research. Abundant notes, ample illustrations, and a very extensive bibliography. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - R. A. Shaddy, Queens College, CHOICE"In researching this subject, Rose has clearly plumbed the depths of the extant published travel literature from this era. He demonstrates a nearly encyclopedic understanding of this material…Overall, Rose’s book is a welcome and necessary addition, an impressive, broadly sourced, well written work." -Richard Gassan, American University of Sharjah, The American Historical Review