A Thread of Years Author:John Lukacs Distinguished historian John Lukacs here presents a series of fictionalized vignettes of daily life as experienced by individuals in the United States during ordinary and extraordinary times between 1901 to 1969. Together these vignettes become a delightful-and poignant-history of manners and mores that shows the decline of civility and of the i... more »deal of the gentleman. Lukacs couples each episode with a discussion of why he has chosen these details to relate, thereby also providing insight into historiographical thinking.« less