The American?

*America Moved: Booth Tarkington's Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869-1928* brings together for the first time all of the autobiographical writings of Booth Tarkington, one of the most successful and best-loved writers in American history. These are the memoirs of one of America's greatest literary figures-and one of the keenest interpreters of American manners and mores.

During his lifetime, Tarkington was immensely popular. From 1902 to 1932, nine of his books were top ten bestsellers, *The Magnificent Ambersons* and *Alice Adams* won Pulitzer Prizes, and Tarkington's *Penrod* stories became widely recognized as young-adult classics.

*America Moved* demonstrates that Tarkington's writing and powers of social observation stand the test of time. Written in a genial, easygoing style, *America Moved* gently but consistently interrogates the values of the new commercial-industrial age, especially its obsessions with speed, growth, and efficiency. The humane skepticism Tarkington directs in these pages toward the automobile, sprawl, and the cult of Progress identifies him as a voice quite at home in the twenty-first century.

*America Moved* will delight readers with an enjoyable eyewitness account of the vast social and cultural changes that transformed America between the Civil War and the Great Depression.