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Author : Wendy L. Elliott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (255 download)
Download or read book The "Roaring" Twenties: a New Perspective on America's Prosperity Decade written by Wendy L. Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erica J. Ryan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book When the World Broke in Two written by Erica J. Ryan and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive history of America in the 1920s presents the decade's most compelling controversies as precursors to today's culture wars. Americans have been embroiled in debate over culturally significant issues including race and immigration, gender and sexuality, and morality and religion for decades. American culture as we know it is an amalgamation of generations of Americans' voices in these national debates, many of which began in the 1920s. This book provides a detailed account of 1920s America within the context of these issues. The first on its subject written by a historian in almost 20 years, it offers a fresh perspective of America during the Roaring Twenties and on the history of the very same social and political battles we struggle with today. Useful for students and history enthusiasts alike, this work gives readers a holistic view of a popular decade and encourages discussion about its continued relevance to modern society. Other important topics covered include city values versus rural values, creationism versus evolutionism, the modern woman, and Prohibition.
Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781640322806
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (228 download)
Download or read book The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in and describing the decadent period of 1920's America, Fitzgerald's lyrical verse is a tragically simple love story that is strangely profound. This is a haunting classic that stays with the reader.
Author : Nathan Miller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143913104X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book New World Coming written by Nathan Miller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To an astonishing extent, the 1920s resemble our own era, at the turn of the twenty-first century; in many ways that decade was a precursor of modern excesses....Much of what we consider contemporary actually began in the Twenties." -- from the Introduction The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination: jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh's history-making flight over the Atlantic. But it was also the era of the hard-won vote for women, racial injustice, censorship, widespread social conflict, and the birth of organized crime. Bookended by the easy living of the Jazz Age, when the booze and money flowed seemingly without end, and the crash of '29 that led to breadlines and a level of human suffering not seen since World War I, New World Coming is a lively, entertaining, and all-encompassing chronological account of an age that defined America. Chronicling what he views as the most consequential decade of the past century, Nathan Miller -- an award-winning journalist and five-time Pulitzer nominee -- paints a vivid portrait of the 1920s, focusing on the men and women who shaped that extraordinary time, including, ironically, three of America's most conservative presidents: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. In the Twenties, the American people soared higher and fell lower than they ever had before. As unprecedented economic prosperity and sweeping social change dazzled the public, the sensibilities and restrictions of the nineteenth century vanished, and many of the institutions, ideas, and preoccupations of our own age emerged. With scandal, sex, and crime the lifeblood of the tabloids, the contemporary culture of celebrity and sensationalism took root and journalism became popular entertainment. By discarding Victorian idealism and embracing twentieth-century skepticism, America became, for the first time, thoroughly modernized. There is hardly a dimension of our present world, from government to popular culture, that doesn't trace its roots to the 1920s, and few decades are more intriguing or significant today. The first comprehensive view of the era since Only Yesterday, Frederick Lewis Allen's 1931 classic, New World Coming reveals this remarkable age from the vantage point of nearly a century later. It's all here -- the images and the icons, the celebrities and the legends -- in a book that will resonate with history readers, 1920s aficionados, and Americans everywhere.
Author : Edmund O. Stillman
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1612308988
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book The Roaring Twenties written by Edmund O. Stillman and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No decade in American history has roared as loudly as the 1920s. For two centuries, the United States had lived in happy isolation from international issues. Then it was drawn into World War I. Although America was still fundamentally a provincial society, by the end of the war and the opening of the new decade, most Americans understood that a new era lay before the country. Despite Prohibition, it was an intoxicating decade, populated with characters as varied as Clarence Darrow, Henry Ford, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Lindbergh, Woodrow Wilson - and flappers. It was a time when ideas about love, public decorum, dress, and speech were changing. It was a time of cultivation of the new, shocking, and sometimes, according to the standards of the previous decade, vulgar: the stocking rolled below the knee, four-letter words in the mouths of debutantes, and speakeasies. All of these details, along with the economic collapse that ended the decade and sparked the Great Depression, are captured in this vivid chronicle by noted historian Edmund O. Stillman.
Author : Captivating History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781647484392
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (843 download)
Download or read book The Roaring Twenties written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few decades capture the imagination like the 1920s. Like so many good stories, it got its start from a time of great turmoil and ended in a dramatic fashion. What happened between 1920 and 1929 has passed beyond history and has become legend.
Author : Nathaniel Reagan Caldwell
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)
Download or read book The Roaring Twenties written by Nathaniel Reagan Caldwell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Roaring Twenties: Jazz, Prohibition, and Prosperity" by Nathaniel Reagan Caldwell Step back in time to an era of unprecedented change and excitement with "The Roaring Twenties" by Nathaniel Reagan Caldwell. In the aftermath of the Great War, America stood at a crossroads, poised on the brink of unparalleled growth and transformation. This gripping book takes you on a captivating journey through the tumultuous decade that defined a generation. Discover the Heartbeat of the Jazz Age: Immerse yourself in the vibrant and exuberant world of jazz, where syncopated rhythms and improvisational melodies captivated the nation and broke down racial barriers. Through the stories of iconic musicians like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, you'll experience the energy and liberation that defined the Roaring Twenties. Prohibition and the Underworld of Vice: Witness the unintended consequences of the 18th Amendment as it gave rise to an underground culture of speakeasies and bootlegging. Explore the shadowy world of gangsters like Al Capone, who profited from the illicit liquor trade, and get a firsthand look at the Prohibition era's impact on American society. Unprecedented Prosperity and Cultural Transformation: Delve into the economic boom of the 1920s, where new technologies and industries transformed the nation. From the rise of the automobile industry to the soaring stock market, you'll see how Americans embraced consumer culture and pursued the American Dream. A Decade of Contradictions: Navigate the complex social landscape of the Roaring Twenties, where progress clashed with repression, prosperity coexisted with inequality, and freedom intertwined with discrimination. Explore the Harlem Renaissance and the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan as the nation grappled with its identity in a time of tremendous change. A Glimpse into a Time of Change: "The Roaring Twenties" by Nathaniel Reagan Caldwell is a compelling exploration of a pivotal decade that shaped the course of American history. It's a story of music, rebellion, opulence, and societal transformation that you won't want to miss. Step into the past and experience the Roaring Twenties like never before. Get your copy of this captivating book today!
Author : Frederick Lewis Allen
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's written by Frederick Lewis Allen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s by Frederick Lewis Allen is a history textbook about the lively gloriousness of Roaring 20s America. Contents: "II. BACK TO NORMALCY III. THE BIG RED SCARE IV. AMERICA CONVALESCENT V. THE REVOLUTION IN MANNERS AND MORALS VI. HARDING AND THE SCANDALS VII. COOLIDGE PROSPERITY VIII. THE BALLYHOO YEARS IX. THE REVOLT OF THE HIGHBROWS X. ALCOHOL AND AL CAPONE XI. HOME, SWEET FLORIDA."
Author : Eric Burns
Publisher : Thorndike Press
ISBN 13 : 9781410481849
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (818 download)
Download or read book 1920 written by Eric Burns and published by Thorndike Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American decade known as "The Roaring Twenties" continues to hold our collective fascination. But how did this surge of innovation and cultural milestones emerge from the ashes of The Great War? Eric Burns examines the crucial year of 1920, the first full year of armistice. From prohibition to immigration, the vote for women, the birth of jazz, the rise of expatriate literature, and the original Ponzi scheme, 1920 was a year like no other.
Author : Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393078388
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade written by Joseph E. Stiglitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How one of the greatest economic expansions in history sowed the seeds of its own collapse. With his best-selling Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz showed how a misplaced faith in free-market ideology led to many of the recent problems suffered by the developing nations. Here he turns the same light on the United States. The Roaring Nineties offers not only an insider's illuminating view of policymaking but also a compelling case that even the Clinton administration was too closely tied to the financial community—that along with enormous economic success in the nineties came the seeds of the destruction visited on the economy at the end of the decade. This groundbreaking work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist argues that much of what we understood about the 1990s' prosperity is wrong, that the theories that have been used to guide world leaders and anchor key business decisions were fundamentally outdated. Yes, jobs were created, technology prospered, inflation fell, and poverty was reduced. But at the same time the foundation was laid for the economic problems we face today. Trapped in a near-ideological commitment to free markets, policymakers permitted accounting standards to slip, carried deregulation further than they should have, and pandered to corporate greed. These chickens have now come home to roost. The paperback includes a new introduction that reviews the continued failure of the Bush administration's policies, which have taken a bad situation and made it worse.
Author : Alfred Papitto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Overview Of The Roaring Twenties written by Alfred Papitto and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roaring Twenties refers to the decade of the 1920s in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, and Sydney. The roar of thousands of newly manufactured vehicles filled the city streets, and the ripple effect of the industry spawned a myriad of ancillary industries, such as car dealerships and mechanic shops. Innovations in the entertainment industry heralded the Golden Age of Radio and resulted in the replacement of vaudeville with cinema as "talkies" replaced silent films and movies come alive with color. The most iconic image of the era was the flapper-a thoroughly modern, young woman, unafraid to flout the social norms of her parents' generation and break with long-standing traditions. She typified the sexually expressive, modern, young, and fun woman who had gained the right to vote, and who was ready to take her rightful place in both the workforce and in the speakeasies that cropped up in the wake of Prohibition. Inside you will read about... ✓ The Booming Economy of the 1920s ✓ Babe Ruth, Jazz, Art Deco, and the Flapper ✓ Women's Rights, Civil Rights, and Gay Rights ✓ Politics and All That Jazz ✓ The Wall Street Crash of 1929 And much more!
Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781521564059
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Roaring Twenties written by Hourly History and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roaring Twenties The Roaring Twenties was a golden age of economic prosperity and liberal social change. Innovations in numerous industries revived a sluggish post-World War I economy, and mass production methods allowed for the standardized, rapid production of various goods, the most notable of which was the automobile. The roar of thousands of newly manufactured vehicles filled the city streets, and the ripple effect of the industry spawned a myriad of ancillary industries, such as car dealerships and mechanic shops. Innovations in the entertainment industry heralded the Golden Age of Radio and resulted in the replacement of vaudeville with cinema as "talkies" replaced silent films and movies came alive with color. The most iconic image of the era was the flapper--a thoroughly modern, young woman, unafraid to flout the social norms of her parents' generation and break with long-standing traditions. She typified the sexually expressive, modern, young, and fun woman who had gained the right to vote, and who was ready to take her rightful place in both the workforce and in the speakeasies that cropped up in the wake of Prohibition. Inside you will read about... ✓ The Booming Economy of the 1920s ✓ Babe Ruth, Jazz, Art Deco, and the Flapper ✓ Women's Rights, Civil Rights, and Gay Rights ✓ Politics and All That Jazz ✓ The Wall Street Crash of 1929 And much more!Along with the social changes for women, African-American cultural and artistic expressions ruled the day as jazz music emanated from the speakeasies and the radio. African-American literature rose to prominence, and all-black casts were featured in the popular theatrical productions. It was an era of progressive change fueled by a sustained economic prosperity that seemed to have no end. It did come to an abrupt end, though, with the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The music stopped, the flapper faded, and the roar of prosperity was silenced. The impact of that golden era, however, still reverberates throughout the modern day. This book tells the compelling story of this raucous period in history in succinct, yet informative detail that is both educational and entertaining.
Author : Irving Bernstein
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608460630
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Lean Years written by Irving Bernstein and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pre-eminent among historians of labor history." --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The textbook history of the 1920s is a story of Prohibition, flappers, and unbounded prosperity. For millions of industrial workers, however, the "roaring twenties" looked very different. Working-class communities were already in crisis in the years before the stock market crash of 1929. Strikes in the 1920s and attempts to organize the unemployed and fight evictions in the early 1930s often fell victim to police violence and repression. Here, Irving Bernstein recaptures the social history of the decade leading up to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration, uncovers its widespread inequality, and sheds light on the long-forgotten struggles that form the prelude to the great labor victories of the 1930s. "In other words, viewed from afar, most of the people who were suffering the hardships of the Depression were depressed and even ashamed, ready to blame themselves for their plight. But the train of developments that connects changes in social conditions to a changed consciousness is not simple. People, including ordinary people, harbor somewhere in their memories the building blocks of different and contradictory interpretations of what it is that is happening to them, of who should be blamed, and what can be done about it. Even the hangdog and ashamed unemployed worker who swings his lunch box and strides down the street so the neighbors will think he is going to a job can also have other ideas that only have to be evoked, and when they are make it possible for him on another day to rally with others and rise up in anger at his condition. --From the new introduction by Frances Fox Piven
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (954 download)
Download or read book The Roaring Twenties written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roaring Twenties was a golden age of economic prosperity and liberal social change. Innovation revitalized the sluggish a post-World War I economy. But this exciting time would end in a very different way. Learn all about this critical time in U.S. history.
Author : Edmund Stillman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781542384957
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (849 download)
Download or read book The Roaring Twenties written by Edmund Stillman and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No decade in American history has roared as loudly as the 1920s. For two centuries, the United States had lived in happy isolation from international issues. Then it was drawn into World War I.Although America was still fundamentally a provincial society, by the end of the war and the opening of the new decade, most Americans understood that a new era lay before the country.Despite Prohibition, it was an intoxicating decade, populated with characters as varied as Clarence Darrow, Henry Ford, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Lindbergh, Woodrow Wilson - and flappers. It was a time when ideas about love, public decorum, dress, and speech were changing. It was a time of cultivation of the new, shocking, and sometimes, according to the standards of the previous decade, vulgar: the stocking rolled below the knee, four-letter words in the mouths of debutantes, and speakeasies. All of these details, along with the economic collapse that ended the decade and sparked the Great Depression, are captured in this vivid chronicle by noted historian Edmund O. Stillman.
Author : George Henry Soule
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Prosperity Decade written by George Henry Soule and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sandi Ludwa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733577830
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (778 download)
Download or read book Did the Twenties Roar? written by Sandi Ludwa and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-07 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Did the Twenties Roar?" is a fascinating adventure through the 1920s and 1930s in America. This is a story of our country and the spirit of the American people. It begins with the end of World War I, the Great War. Americans were tired of picking up the newspapers and experiencing the constant news stories breeding fear. Deaths were overwhelming, not only from the War but from La Grippe, or the Spanish Flu. Doughboys came home wounded, with diseases, and tried to adjust to being civvies once again. Families had to make adjustments and people demanded more. We were tired and needed to move on. The twenties were upon us with prohibition, automobiles, flappers, and a search for fun and a good life. The twenties came and went and before America realized it, we were in a Depression -- a Great one. We struggled and somehow made it into the forties. World War II arrived and the economic depression was over. "Did the Twenties Roar?" is an adventure covering the two decades. It is both a light-hearted and dark story of events, people, and American determination to survive. Could these times happen again? Once you read this book, you will see the similarity with current events. We've witnessed the same issues during our lifetimes: disease, the Flu, political corruption, presidential ups and downs, yellow-press, recession and depression, good times rolling, and periods of prosperity. Look back and give the issues some thought and enjoy the experience reading about the Greatest Country in the World -- the United States of America.
