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Bezig met laden... Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime Americadoor Joan Wehlen Morrison
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Home Front Girl by Joan Wehlen Morrison is the diaries of the author from her childhood through early adulthood. She was a teenager through WWII and the diaries reflect this.They cover the usual things: homework, school events, and teenage angsty things. There are also her thoughts on the war, popular culture of the time, and various names in the news. It's an interesting read for anyone who wants a glimpse of what home front life was like. This is the edited diary of Joan Wehlen Morrison who lived in Chicago in the 1930's and 1940's. Her daughter found her diary after her death and has edited it for publication. Although the title implies that this will be a story of her life on the home front during World War II.the bulk of the diary covers the 1930's. The entries covering the war years are actually very brief. This is not casting aspersions on the writing, which is very good and very insightful. Joan was an exceptionally bright young woman and her observations on world events and the society she lived in are insightful and mature. I csme away from the book wishing I had known her. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Juvenile Nonfiction.
HTML:Kept from the early 1930s through the mid-1940s by a young Chicagoan, this diary provides a fascinating, detailed record of the life of an astute and witty teenage girl during the Great Depression and the lead-up to World War II. The only daughter of a working-class Swedish immigrant and his wife, this everyday girl describes her life growing up in the cityâ??from pining for handsome boys in ROTC uniforms and bus trips between the Art Institute and her home to her love of Lake Michigan and, later, her campus life at the University of Chicago. Along the way she ruminates about the daily headlines and major touchstones of the era: the Lindbergh kidnapping, FDR on the radio, Goodbye Mr. Chips and Citizen Kane, Garbo, Churchill, Hitler, war work, and Red Cross meetings. Poems, doodles, and drawings of the latest dress, outfit, or haircut accompany the entries. The diary is an entertaining and delightful read as well as a vivid account of a real American girl's lived experienc Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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A very smart teenagers thoughts on day to day life.
Interesting view on the times. Could be used for school assignments.
Excellent primary source. ( )