In my quest to obtain books for Dad, I managed to find two other books which I think might be just right for the both of us to thoroughly enjoy "together". This book, because it's discussion is about a time the nation went through a vast change; &, after reading the synopsis on Amazon's page, I initially thought that there seems to be an entire high school history class' year's worth of lesson plans encompassed within the pages of this book. This book also, because I'm personally enamored by all things location, maps, zip codes, & geography in general. Each of my professional positions have, happenchance, dealt with addresses, more specifically & more frequently, maps. I've typically either utilized a map, or numerous maps together to respond & provide feedback & assistance to a co-worker, customer, client, what have you, or created one (from a program) in order to enhance the product of what my employer was expected to include when submitting an assignment. To this end, I've also found that any position, any career for that matter, where I'd be working to a great degree with maps & addresses, would be one where I'd be "right at home" as well as successful & worthy talent; a great attribute to that company.
I've also found it fascinating how zip codes were established around a city, in that the towns, as they "pull away" from the city, in an alphabetical fashion, the last digits of their zip codes were applied in order. Many towns are merged, or identified by other names, & therefore this "labeling" fashion can easily go unnoticed...unless someone's intrigued & considers it. 😊 There's an amount of information here on this too. By the by, I've no idea if this book touches on any of this, though I've great anticipation for its possibility.
Dad & I had discussed the television show, How the States Got Their Shapes. He'd said that it was frustrating to him because there'd been so much jumping around. I pointed out that it was T.V. & that's something they've got to include in order to wrap the production around commercials & other, like requirements. He responded, "Ah hmmm..." In a, "Yes, you have a point, & I agree with you, yet it's still an eye-rolling misfortune that it's set up as it is." He may have even rolled his eyes as he responded. He does that often, eye-rolling, that is.
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I'd also managed to find in my book stash a number of other books which kind of fit that same profile. Historical, as well as somewhat genealogical, & then there's social history, which taps into my college major: sociology, which is likely why I'd purchased the book in the first place.😊 This is a link to the series, though the one I obtained is Volume II: 1865-Present Fourth Edition.
The two "historical" books might be considered more on the political spectrum. In any case, I picked them up years ago, & when recently sifting through a large load of books in order to best organize them, I came across this book & this book.
The genealogical book, is this book, which is really a book on German village life, (actually that's the subtitle: German Village Life 😊), & as Dad is 100% German, & I've inherited his, rather-obvious-upon-first-glance German cheek bones, I've taken to all-things-German, German culture, German background & history of Germany within that of what would be my family, what would've affected my ancestors "in the old country" & what would've been those things impacting my ancestors into becoming who they were, making the decisions they've made, & thus bringing my ancestors to be who they were by the time the generations got around to making me. All of this similar to Dad's zeal for general genealogical research. Which is probably why he credits to me the greatest likelihood of following in his "family tree" footsteps. 😊
Now, all I've to do is get around to actually reading each of these novelties & then I'll be ready to gift them to Dad. 📚😂
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