Becoming Modern America 1901-1936 (Century for Young People)

The 20th century was a time of tremendous change, the most eventful hundred years in human history; adapted from the #1 national best seller especially for young readers, each contains 16-page inserts of exquisitely reproduced photographs having an astonishing power to illuminate history. Co-authored by the late award-winning chief anchor of ABC's World News Tonight and the senior editorial producer of ABC's The Century. Original.

Peter Jennings (1938-2005) was chief anchor of ABC's World News Tonight. In more than forty years as a broadcast journalist, he worked in most parts of the world, from the American South to Southern Africa, from the Middle East to eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Among the hundreds of programs he was a part of, he treasured those he had done with and for the young.

Todd Brewster was the senior editorial producer of ABC's The Century television series. In more than twenty-five years as a journalist, he has covered the American national political scene and the collapse of Communism in eastern Europe, both for Life, where he was a writer and editor. He is currently the director of the Center for Oral History at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.