Dixon Wecter

This is the first definitive biography of the real Tom Sawyer--the fun-loving practical joker whose youth in a Mississippi River town typifies the Golden Age of American Boyhood. No major writer ever made more of his boyhood than did Samuel Clemens whose growing up has become a part of our common heritage.

This author was a journalist who moved to Paris just months before the outbreak of World War I. She published four collections of her wartime letters to friends: A Hilltop on the Marne, On the edge of the war zone, The Peak of the load, and When Johnny comes marching home. This volume (the final set) is a collection of letters that describe her experiences in the months immediately following the end of World War I.

Beginning in 1929, [the author] tells the story of what happened to the country and it people through the years to the beginning of the [second World] war.