The illustrations are fantastic and the story is wonderful! I love Harvey's rules of table manners!

I do the childrens' storytimes at our local library and I have bought this book to donate to the children's department...I don't want to wait until the library orders it!

My grand-niece and nephew will also receive a copy!

This book has some interesting tidbits and some cute details about women's life 100 years ago. Lots of info about how they dressed and personal hygiene and some housework information. It is an easy read. The book is over 200 pages, but the margins are huge. I'm an old house fanatic and a history buff and this book didn't quite hit the spot for me, but it's in my personal library as a good reference work.

However, if you can only buy one or two books about life 100 years ago, I'd recommend "Never done" by Susan Strasser and "Victorian America" by Thomas Schlereth.

These books get to the nitty gritty and have more substance. Again, "Light of the Home" is not a bad book - I bought it, after all and I kept it! It's in my top five favorite books of women's life in history. I'd just put a couple books above it, in my personal preferences.

I really like this book, and highly recommend it.
It's great for anyone interested in the Victorian era.
It talks about women's fashion's in that era and their
way of life. It has some good illustrations a well.

After remodeling my home with victorian woodwork and accessories, I was curious about the lifestyle of the average victorian. The book contains numerous pictures and historical information which gave me a broad understanding of their lives.

The trouble is that the only ones who write novels of high finance and corporate matters are those who failed in said fields, so "Rick Green" is a little disappointing, but it is still an enjoyable (and occassionally very funny) read.

A good book; I hope Mr. Sawikin keeps writing! This book is a hidden gem; not a major bestseller, but worthy of being rescued from a local library.

There are some very funny bits here (especially in the prologue), and the first 100 pages are great fun, then it gets a little unbelievable, but Sawikin has such an easy style that keeps you reading and entertained. I agree, he should definitely keep writing!!!

If you want this kind of information buy "The Good Old Days - They Were Terrible" by Otto L. Bettmann (a much better book about the same period). I found Green's book chock full of information that is poorly organized and thus, difficult to read and remember. Authors of this genre must find ways to make the facts relevant and interesting or the facts become (as in this book) just a dull regurgitation of horrendous human suffering. Reading the facts about "the old days" makes one appreciate the difficulties our parents and grandparents had just to live from day to day. But there are other, better books that do this job than this one by Harvey Green.

This book is essentially a text for an undergraduate survey course. As such it suffers from some of the usual maladies of history textbooks. It seems to have been compiled by committee. One wonders to whom - other than undergraduates with required reading - it is addressed.

Big, mind-numbing (because not particularly thought-provoking) statements abound. Often, they stand alone, to be followed by more big statements. For example, "Popular music gradually surpassed, but did not completely supplant, classical music on urban radio stations. In 1938 the Federal Communications Committee conducted a survey of the content of 62,000 radio hours, and found that one-third of the air time was devoted to commercials." This statement is offered, not to make a point about the growth of advertising culture but, rather, as an irrelevant topic sentence for an assortment of subsequent statements about radio content. The book is dominated by this hodge-podge effect, and the mind wanders because of it.

Precious little - whether social movements, political realities, or cultural phenomena - is given more than a few sentences. Urban culture, the labor movement, sexual mores, Christmas, fashion, funerals, comic books - all seem equally weighted. The authorial tendency toward generalization, although an accepted "register" for textbook writing, is unfortunate for what is omitted. The consequence is that students are uninspired, and aren't taught how to do history. An opportunity is lost.

The introduction would seem to promise the inclusion of at least snippets of oral history and remembrance and some primary sources, but none is included, other that what has been predigested by the author. The effect is that the reader is distanced from the material and, unfortunately, from the very interesting history it purports to introduce.

In the plus column, there are wonderful photographs and good notes, and an index. Frustrating reading.

Between the ending of the First World War and the beginning of World War II, the United States rapidly became an increasingly urban culture as people left their farms to seek work in the cities. The economic enticements of industrialization during the 1920s, the devastated Midwest farming and economic restrictions during the years of "The Great Depression", the migration of blacks out of the South and into the industrial belt of the North to escape poverty and racial discrimination, all contributed to this changing demographic. Even though the standard of living improved for many American families during this period, by 1941 only half the population enjoyed the modern conveniences that are nowadays taken for granted. For many Americans, daily life was hallmarked with economic uncertainty, unpredictable jobs and wages, labor unrest, and stock market mishaps. In The Uncertainty Of Everyday Life 1915-1945, history professor Harvey Green (Northeastern University) recounts an era of unprecedented changes in American culture and the impact of those uncertain times on employment, home life, gender roles, education, religion, recreation. The Uncertainty Of Everyday Life 1915-1945 is a superb work of insightful, informative history that is exceptionally well written and highly recommended to students of American history and popular culture.

To put it kindly, authors Araton and Bondy need to do a little soul-searching and examine their own motives for creating this smear-campaign of a book. I find it hard to believe that two otherwise respected sports journalists would allow to have their names attached to this.

The basic premise of the book holds forth that the Celtics organization is a racist organization that caters to a racist Boston fan base and is abetted by a racist local press. Well, let's not apply too broad a brush here! The book then goes on to recount every personnel and organizational decision the Celtics have ever made, always in unflattering racial terms.

Well, let's see... how do I say this? OK, here goes. Fellas, aren't you just a little bit bitter that the Celtics have had such huge success over the years, often in embarrassing fashion over your own favorite teams (Syracuse Nats, New York Knicks, Phil. 76's)? Doesn't it bug you that your hated rival has again and again built champion-caliber squads with players that weere allowed to slip through the cracks by less astute competitors? Don't you feel just a little bit foolish about having written this juvenile ill-informed diatribe and not gotten the least amount of attention? Sure you do. And in the process, you flushed any journalistic integrity you might have had down the drain. Congratulations, authors Araton and Bondy.