num_pages: 684
description: A memoir of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian considers events that occurred during his lifetime and that contributed to America's rise to world power status, as told through his personal experiences in childhood, in college, and during war times. 50,000 first printing.
language: English
title: A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950
titlecomplete: A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950
genres: Autobiography, History, American History, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 79
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt