Modern Temper American Culture and Society in the 1920s

Name: Modern Temper American Culture and Society in the 1920s
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ISBN: 9780809015665

ISBN-10: 0809015668

ISBN-13: 9780809015665

Edition: 1995

Authors: Lynn Dumenil, Eric Foner

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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 society; and different religious, ethnic, and…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 6/30/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Eric Foner is a professor of American history at Columbia University.



Introduction



Public and Private Power



Work and Consumption



The New Woman



The Acids of Modernity: Secular and Sacred Interpretations



Conformity and Community



Pluralism and Community


Epilogue


Bibliographic Essay


Index