The Ten-Year Century: Explaining the First Decade of the New Millennium - Hardcover

Sutherland, James B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670012238 ISBN 13: 9780670012237

Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers, 2010

Synopsis

Remember worrying about the Y2K bug in 1999? Or life before Twitter? Ten years ago, September 11 was just another day, Facebook didn't exist, and Barack Obama was a little-known state senator. Some have called the jam-packed first decade of the new millennium the "ten-year century" for all of the history-making, life-changing developments it's contained.

Now, James Sutherland explores these influential years for the audience that's grown up in it, putting history in context and explaining how the world is smaller, faster, and more connected than it's ever been-and why it matters.

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About the Author

James Sutherland is a freelance writer. He lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews

Set on explaining the past decade to readers who lived through it but may have been too young to take a broad view, Sutherland retraces in annual summaries the major events between the worldwide New Year’s Eve celebrations in 1999 and the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas of 2009. Along with admitting at the outset that he is writing from an “American viewpoint” about very recent incidents that may well gain or lose historical significance as time goes on, he reveals a personal perspective in the themes he assigns to each chapter: 2003 is “Mission Accomplished,” for instance; 2004 has “Truthiness”; and 2009 gets “Is Compromise a Dirty Word?” He focuses almost exclusively on this country’s politics and wars, relegating with but a handful of exceptions any notice of cultural or scientific milestones to a paragraph or two of scattered references opening each chapter. Still, these readable essays, capped with an extensive list of sources, will give readers an accurate and comprehensible, if selective, view of the past decade’s public affairs. Grades 7-10. --John Peters

Edition details

• Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670012238
• ISBN 13: 9780670012237
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 151