The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible! (Paperback)

from melydia

This was written in the 1970s, so the "good old days" in question are the period between the Civil War and World War I. There are tons of photos and cartoons, all about how awful life was back then, particularly in terms of sanitation and human rights. It's funny in a horrifying kind of way, if t...

from BruceCoulson

Feeling nostalgic? Here is the cure! Bettman covers much of unpleasant aspects of Victorian Life that often are overlooked in many histories and novels set in the 1800s. Using newspaper drawings and accounts (the Victorians were not at all sentimental about their own era; scandal and 'racy' accou...

from Newmans2001

The repetitive humor in negativity gets very old very fast. Reminiscing of people that always have something bad to say, even about something good.

from melikebooks

Raging disease, streets ankle deep in manure and other unspeakably smelly filth, meat displayed for sale without the benefit of refrigeration, chamber pots emptied from every tenement window (bystanders beware): This is an eye-opening peek at how much better off we are now, even with the spectre ...

from melikebooks

Raging disease, streets ankle deep in manure and other unspeakably smelly filth, meat displayed for sale without the benefit of refrigeration, chamber pots emptied from every tenement window (bystanders beware): This is an eye-opening peek at how much better off we are now, even with the spectre ...