Weather Matters: An American Cultural History Since 1900

by Bernard Mergen

Book Overview

Everybody talks about it--and why not? From tornadoes in the Heartland to hurricanes in the Gulf, blizzards in the Midwest to droughts across the South, weather matters to Americans and makes a difference in their daily lives.

Bernard Mergen's captivating and kaleidoscopic new book illuminates our inevitable obsession with weather--as both physical reality and evocative metaphor--in all of its myriad forms, focusing on the ways in which it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070061611X
• ISBN13: 9780700616114
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"