The Modern Temper
American Culture and Society in the 1920s
When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover--and of Black Friday, October 29, 1929, when the plunging stock market ushered in the great depression. But the 1920s were much more. Lynn Dumenil brings a fresh interpretation to a dramatic, important, and misunderstood decade. As her lively work makes clear, changing values brought an end to the repressive Victorian era; urban liberalism emerged; the federal bureaucracy was expanded; pluralism became increasingly important to America's heterogeneous societ…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4299-2400-9
- EAN: 9781429924009
- Produktnummer: 22463682
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 370 KB
- Abbildungen: Includes a bibliography and an index
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Lynn Dumenil
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