Everything was bigger. The biggest crowd ever seen – 40 million people according to one breathless estimate – was about to descend on the city for the World's Fair, and they would be arriving at the largest train station ever built.Narrator
He didn't invent baseball. But he did, almost single-handedly, invent the idea of going to see a baseball game.Bill Bryson referring to Babe Ruth
In summer in Kansas, what you are left with is heat – and lots of it.Narrator
In every corner of the world news means something different to people.Narrator
An interesting feature of America at this time was that there was still enough unexplored space in the country, and enough unsettled land, that people could lose themselves in it.Narrator
No summer before or since has ever been quite like that summer of 1927.Narrator
In the 1920s, America became the richest and most productive country in the world.Narrator
In a country that was rich and wild, unchecked by norms and conventionalities, it was easy to see why flights of fantasy could prosper.Narrator
It was a summer of dreams – of carelessness and freedom, the American dream personified in the people of an era.Narrator
Even under the blistering sun, there was a sense of something beginning, a change sweeping across America – an understated, yet unmistakable transformation that was about to turn the country into what it had always promised to be.Narrator