A captivating look at a bygone era through the lens of a single,
surprisingly momentous American year one century ago. 1908 was the
year Henry Ford launched the Model T, the Wright Brothers proved to
the world that they had mastered the art of flight, Teddy Roosevelt
decided to send American naval warships around the globe, the
Chicago Cubs won the World Series (a feat they have never yet
repeated), and six automobiles set out on an incredible 20,000 mile
race from New York City to Paris via the frozen Bering Strait.
A charming and knowledgeable guide, Rasenberger takes readers
back to a time of almost limitless optimism, even in the face of
enormous inequality, an era when the majority of Americans believed
that the future was bound to be better than the past, that the
world's worst problems would eventually be solved, and that nothing
at all was impossible. As Thomas Edison succinctly said that year,
"Anything, everything is possible."
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