Newport News Through the 20th Century

Author(s): Amy Waters Yarsinske

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Series: America Through Time
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781634990110
Related Topics: America Through Time, Virginia, South

DESCRIPTION

This history of Newport News is about a new city in a new century—the twentieth century—with attention to the importance to the first years after incorporation to the nascent years of the twenty-first century.

There is little argument that the twentieth century was "America's century," a time of incredible growth, innovation and prosperity across the country, despite depression and war, and the dichotomy of black and white, poverty and wealth that marked the highs and lows of Newport News' twentieth century experience.

The consistent threads that weave the Newport News story still hinge on the imagination, ambition and achievement of Collis Huntington; what he started at the end of the nineteenth century became a powerhouse in the twentieth.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)

Amy Waters Yarsinske is the author of several best-selling, award-winning non-fiction books. Her drive to document and investigate history-shaping stories and people has already led to over 60 non-fiction books, most of them spotlighting current affairs, the military, history and the environment. Amy graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in English and Economics. She earned her Master of Planning from the University of Virginia School of Architecture, where she was a DuPont Fellow and Lawn/Range resident. She also holds numerous graduate certificates, including from the CIVIC Leadership Institute and the Joint Forces Staff College, both headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781634990110
Publisher: America Through Time
Date: 10/17/2016
State: Virginia
Series: America Through Time
Images: 217 Color
Pages: 128
Dimensions: 6.5 (w) x 9.25 (h)

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