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Living in the American Century

Host Bob Edwards talks to Washington Post writer Henry Allen about his new book, What It Felt Like: Living in the American Century. It's a series of impressionistic vignettes of life in the 1900's, decade by decade. (7:18) What It Felt Like: Living in the American Century is published by Pantheon Books; ISBN: 0375420630.

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