Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century [Hardcover]

A transporting work of photographic history that offers a haunting vision of how Americans viewed the world at the dawn of the twentieth century. Michael Lesy has long been known as our foremost photographic historian. With Lesy has forged his own niche, his own singular sub-genre of literary and journalistic social criticism via archival photographs& [ Engrossing&. A fascinating collection, annotated in great detail, and certainly food for thought and meditation. It's a fantastic book... Fascinating, excellent production, featuring an archive of the world in the early 20th Century. As a historian, Lesy finds a particular fascination in these photographs and how the scenes they depict highlight many of the same issues society grapples with today  from war and racism to environmental destruction and gross disparities in wealth. IT