Inevitably, much of the heavy baggage that readers will schlep across the bridge into the 21st century will be the large-format, illustrated histories of the 20th. The bridge is not yet ready for traffic, but two such volumes are now crowding the toll gates. One is The Century (Doubleday; 606 pages; $60) by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster; the other, The American Century (Knopf; 710 pages; $50) by Harold Evans. The books are distinctly different, but each has much to recommend it, not least because Jennings, a Canadian national, and British-born Evans, now a U.S. citizen, view their subject from the...
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