{"product_id":"9781450046244","title":"Living in the Greatest Century","description":"Gerald \"Jerry\" Kerr was born in 1920 in Kansas, the Heartland of the United States.  \u003cbr\u003eIn his early years, there were no modern appliances, and everything was done by manual labor.  \u003cbr\u003eHe describes how movies went from black and white, silent films to sound and color.  \u003cbr\u003eIn 1929 the Stock Market crashed and he lived through the Great Depression and terrible dust storms in the Mid-west.  \u003cbr\u003eHitler started WWII in 1939 and Japan attacked the U.S. Navy in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.  \u003cbr\u003eThe author was drafted into the Army, went to OCS and became a 2nd Lieutenant.  \u003cbr\u003eHe married and was sent to New Guinea and at the end of the war, took in some of the first troops to occupy Japan.  \u003cbr\u003eHe saw his eighteen months old son for the first time when he returned home.  \u003cbr\u003eKerr was in the army for twenty-two years and retired in 1964.  \u003cbr\u003eDuring his Army Career, he had three tours of duty in the Pentagon, a tour in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Bangkok, Thailand, and received an MBA from Syracuse University.  \u003cbr\u003eHis wife contracted Alzheimer's and passed away in the 80's and he later married a Texas lady.  \u003cbr\u003eHe lived four score of the 20th Century, and experienced the fantastic advances made in transportation, communications, electronics and medicine.  \u003cbr\u003eComputers put men on the moon and more progress was made in that one century than in all of the time before.  \u003cbr\u003eThis made it \"Living in the Greatest Century\".  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Author Solutions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128518951152,"sku":"9781450046244","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781450046244_p0.jpg?v=1763833154","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781450046244","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}