Howdy to everyone from a newbie to Kindle Boards. This looks like
the place to be! My name is Jim Chambers, and I live in metro Atlanta. My new book is now available for the Kindle. The title is
Recollections: A Baby Boomer's Memories of the Fabulous Fifties.
The Amazon link:
Recollections: A Baby Boomer's Memories of the Fabulous FiftiesAbout the AuthorJim Chambers was born in 1946, nine months and five days after his father returned from serving with the U.S. 8th Air Force in England during World War II. After earning two engineering degrees at Georgia Tech, he spent the next 40 years designing highways in Georgia. Besides writing, Chambers is an avid amateur photographer and scuba diver. His land and underwater photography has been published in such prestigious publications as National Geographic, Popular Science, and Parade Magazine.
About the BookAs one of the first post-WWII Baby Boomers, Jim Chambers’ childhood and early teenage years were in the 1950s, a remarkable decade for the United States that saw enormous political, technological, and cultural changes. Although many books have covered the headline-making events of the era in great detail, few of these books give the reader a real feel for what daily life was like for Americans living in that decade, especially for kids growing up then. The author remembers the little nuts and bolts things of daily life for families during the fascinating decade known as the Fabulous Fifties.
Recollections perfectly blends paying homage to the little day-to-day rituals with a larger scale examination of social issues and mores of the times, and it’s equally entertaining on either level.
Recollections is a warm, lovingly honest, and fascinating portrait of America in the mid-20th Century.
I'm proud of the book. It was definitely a labor of love, as well as something I've wanted to write about for many years, and I think it turned out well.
I have to add that I've owned a Kindle 2 for a couple of months, and I love it so much that it's hard to image reading a printed book again. I wrote
Recollections to be a printed book, and I'm working on that now, but as soon as I got the Kindle and loved it from the start, I uploaded my manuscript to Kindle, and if the topic sounds interesting, I hope you'll check it out.
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