No Fixed Address

John I Brooks

ISBN 10: 1436324157 / ISBN 13: 9781436324151

Published by Xlibris Apr 2009, 2009

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Neuware - The Great Depression was a devastating historical event that affected everyone around the world. No one was spared as people of wealth plunged into the depths of real poverty, experienced homelessness and hunger in the hard times and unrelieved combat that lasted for years. Author John I. Brooks shares his memories as a child growing up during the Depression where many experienced No Fixed Address. No Fixed Address is a memoir of the Depression, World War II and the events that mark the beginning of the nation's postwar transformation. The author takes the reader on a journey through those times in Chicago, Southern California and New York City. His fascinating true account focuses on the struggles and joys of ordinary families in an extraordinary time. But always in the background are the massive changes taking place in the life and culture of Americans as their old world vanished and a new one was born. These seismic shifts continue to influence our lives today.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Fixed Address
• Publisher: Xlibris Apr 2009
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1436324157
• ISBN 13: 9781436324151
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 18D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 494 grams

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Synopsis

The Great Depression was a devastating historical event that affected everyone around the world. No one was spared as people of wealth plunged into the depths of real poverty, experienced homelessness and hunger in the hard times and unrelieved combat that lasted for years. Author John I. Brooks shares his memories as a child growing up during the Depression where many experienced No Fixed Address.

No Fixed Address is a memoir of the Depression, World War II and the events that mark the beginning of the nation's postwar transformation. The author takes the reader on a journey through those times in Chicago, Southern California and New York City. His fascinating true account focuses on the struggles and joys of ordinary families in an extraordinary time. But always in the background are the massive changes taking place in the life and culture of Americans as their old world vanished and a new one was born. These seismic shifts continue to influence our lives today.

About the Author

John I. (Jack) Brooks has been a newspaper reporter and editor, Washington correspondent, columnist, magazine writer, Capitol Hill staff director and adjunct professor at Georgetown and George Washington Universities.

Shortly before his retirement, in a casual search through old records, he found a 50-year-old letter from his father sketching some of the family’s history. This launched him into genealogy and awakened an intense interest in America as it was when he was born and as it changed so dramatically during his youth. That interest led to the recollections and research that became No Fixed Address.
You may contact the author at rjbrooks2@earthlink.net