Roar of the Twenties

Name: Roar of the Twenties
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ISBN: 9781897252109

ISBN-10: 1897252102

ISBN-13: 9781897252109

Edition: 2006

Authors: James H. Gray, James H. Gray

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Decades after its release in 1975, James Gray_s trademark energetic prose pulsates with the essence of this flamboyant era when idealism ran rampant across the prairies. Gray captures the: Political frustrations of the farmers and the resulting turbulent Progressive movement and the resulting Wheat Pools Radical idealism of the One Big Union, born after the Winnipeg General Strike in 1919 Gambling fever that struck not only Western Canadians, but all North Americans, spawned by those who put their paychecks in football pools, horse races, and the spectacular ups and downs of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange Social and religious movements such as the birth of the United Church and the Ku Klux…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Fifth House Publishers
Publication date: 9/19/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Foreword



Preface


Introduction


Going for Broke


Down on the Farm


After the Strike Was Over


The Rich Were Rich


A Golden Age for Games


The Gospel of Co-operation


Back to the Booze


Remember the Night They Robbed the Bank?


A Blow for Women's Lib


Almost United


The Sting of the WASP


The Battle of the Winnipeg Cenotaph


Jimmy Gardiner v. the Ku Klux Klan


Take My Money-Please!


The Glow from Hell's Half-Acre


Downward to Disaster


A Note on Sources


Index