This colorful picture and text kaleidoscope of American social life decade by decade since the 1870's wonderfully illuminates the spirit of change in a nation-on-the go. Vivid, concise descriptive introductions and picture captions provide a frameworkfor each decade, capsuling political events, inventions, innovations, high society and low, the celebrated and the notorious, clothing styles, furniture and gadgets, as well as the special highlights that stamped the different decades.