Author : Michael J. O'Neal
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 38,2 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Nineteen twenties
ISBN : 1438118708
Details the Roaring Twenties in American history discussing presidents, the Eighteenth Amendment, Nineteenth Amendment, expatriate writers, the Ku Klux Klan, the Harlem Renaissance, restricted immigration, the National Football League and more.
Author : David J. Goldberg
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 1999-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801860041
"In a class by itself. Goldberg provides an engaging, nicely written narrative and draws upon a variety of secondary and primary sources to create an outstanding historical synthesis." -- Ohio Historian
Author : Susan Currell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 2009-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0748630856
Introduces the major cultural and intellectual trends of the decade by introducing and assessing the development of the primary cultural forms: namely, Fiction, Poetry and Drama, Music and Performance, Film and Radio, and Visual Art and Design. A fifth chapter focuses on the unprecedented rise in the 1920s of Leisure and Consumption.
Author : Rollyson, Carl Edmund Rollyson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Nineteen twenties
ISBN :
Flappers, prohibition, jazz, and the Lost Generation.'The Twenties in America' examines the iconic personalties and moments of this uproarious decade. The encyclopedia serves as a valuable source of reliable information and keen insights for today's students.
Author : Frederick Lewis Allen
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 18,9 MB
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
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 : Kathleen Drowne
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : History
ISBN :
The American 1920s had many names: the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, the Dry Decade, and the Flapper generation. Whatever the moniker, these years saw the birth of modern America. This volume shows the many colorful ways the decade altered America, its people, and its future. American Popular Culture Through History volumes include a timeline, cost comparisons, chapter bibliographies, and a subject index. Writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Damon Runyon presented distinct literary visions of the world. Jazz, blues, and country music erupted onto the airwaves. The exploits of Babe Ruth and Murderers' Row helped save baseball from its scandals, while such players as Red Grange and Notre Dame's Four Horsemen brought football to national prominence. Yo-yos, crossword puzzles, and erector sets appeared, along with fads like dance marathons and flagpole sitting. Rudolph Valentino, talkies, and Clara Bow's It girl appeared on the silver screen. Prohibition indirectly led to bootlegging and speakeasies, while the growing rebelliousness of teenagers highlighted an increasing generation gap.
Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 1925
Category :
ISBN : 9781640322806
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 : Paul S. Boyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0199911657
This volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from the earliest human migrations to the early twenty-first century when the United States loomed as a global power and comprised a complex multi-cultural society of more than 300 million people. The narrative is organized around major interpretive themes, with facts and dates introduced as needed to illustrate these themes. The emphasis throughout is on clarity and accessibility to the interested non-specialist.
Author : Marcia Amidon Lusted
Publisher : Nomad Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1619302624
The 1920s is one of the most fascinating decades in American history, when the seeds of modern American life were sown. It was a time of prosperity and recovery from war, when women's roles began to change and advertising and credit made it desirable and easy to acquire a vast array of new products. But there was a dark side of crime and corruption, racial intolerance, hard times for immigrants and farmers, and an impending financial collapse. The Roaring Twenties: Discover the Era of Prohibition, Flappers, and Jazz explores all the different aspects of the time, from literature and music to politics, fashion, economics, and invention. To experience one of the most vibrant eras in US history, readers will debate the pros and cons of prohibition, create an advertising campaign for a new product, and analyze and compare events leading to the stock market crashes of 1929 and 2008. The Roaring Twenties meets common core state standards in language arts for reading informational text and literary nonfiction and is aligned with Next Generation Science Standards. Guided Reading Levels and Lexile measurements indicate grade level and text complexity.
Author : Paul V. Murphy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1442215402
In the 1920s, Americans talked of their times as “modern,” which is to say, fundamentally different, in pace and texture, from what went before—a new era. With the end of World War I, an array of dizzying inventions and trends pushed American society from the Victorian era into modernity. The New Era provides a history of American thought and culture in the 1920s through the eyes of American intellectuals determined to move beyond an older role as gatekeepers of cultural respectability and become tribunes of openness, experimentation, and tolerance instead. Recognizing the gap between themselves and the mainstream public, younger critics alternated between expressions of disgust at American conformity and optimistic pronouncements of cultural reconstruction. The book tracks the emergence of a new generation of intellectuals who made culture the essential terrain of social and political action and who framed a new set of arguments and debates—over women’s roles, sex, mass culture, the national character, ethnic identity, race, democracy, religion, and values—that would define American public life for fifty years.
