Summary: <p>The summer of 1927 isn't a year that particularly stands out in U.S. history books, but it was, as writer Bill Bryson explains, a crucial one in America's past. A previously unknown young man, Charles Lindbergh, crossed the Atlantic. Babe Ruth transfixed a nation with a home run record that endured for decades. And an epic flood of the Mississippi River prompted the first ever massive federal relief effort. In a new book, Bryson details these and other events of the summer of 1927 and their long lasting legacy.</p>
