Living in 1920s America

Living in 1920s America

Author: Myra Weatherly

Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780737728019

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This anthology of essays examines the dramatic shifts within the culture of personal relationships, the working life, and leisure pursuits.


Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940

Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940

Author: David E. Kyvig

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13:

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The twenties and thirties witnessed dramatic changes in American life: increasing urbanization, technological innovation, cultural upheaval, and economic disaster. In this fascinating book, the prize-winning historian David E. Kyvig describes everyday life in these decades, when automobiles and home electricity became commonplace, when radio and the movies became broadly popular. The details of work life, domestic life, and leisure activities make engrossing reading and bring the era clearly into focus.


Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's

Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's

Author: Frederick Lewis Allen

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-11-22

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13:

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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."


The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

Author: F Scott Fitzgerald

Publisher:

Published: 2021-01-13

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13:

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Set in the 1920's Jazz Age on Long Island, The Great Gatsby chronicles narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. First published in 1925, the book has enthralled generations of readers and is considered one of the greatest American novels.


Living Up to the Ads

Living Up to the Ads

Author: Simone Weil Davis

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780822324461

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Explores interactions between novels and advertising in the construction of subjectivity in the early part of the twentieth century.


American Culture in the 1920s

American Culture in the 1920s

Author: Susan Currell

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2009-03-21

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0748630856

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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.


America in The 1920s

America in The 1920s

Author: Michael J. O'Neal

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1438118708

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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.


Setting a Course

Setting a Course

Author: Dorothy Marie Brown

Publisher: Twayne Publishers

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13:

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Examines the identity of "the new woman" of the 1920s chronicling their struggles and experiences in contrast to popular images set forth in the mass media and in literature of the day.


Hollywood

Hollywood

Author: Gore Vidal

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-03-23

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0307784223

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Hollywood marks the fifth episode in Gore Vidal's "Narratives of Empire," his celebrated series of six historical novels that form his extended biography of the United States. It is 1917, and President Woodrow Wilson is about to lead the country into the Great War in Europe. In California, a new industry is born that will irreversibly transform America. Caroline Sanford, the alluring heroine of Empire, discovers the power of moving pictures to manipulate reality as she vaults to screen stardom under the name of Emma Traxler. Just as Caroline must balance her two lives--West Coast movie star and East Coast newspaper publisher and senator's mistress--so too must America balance its two power centers: Hollywood and Washington. Here is history as only Gore Vidal can re-create it: brimming with intrigue and scandal, peopled by the greats of the silver screen and American politics. "Hollywood shimmers with the illusion of politics and the politics of illusion," wrote the Chicago Sun-Times. "A wonderfully literate and consistently impressive work of fiction that clearly belongs on a shelf with Vidal's best," said The New York Times Book Review. With a new Introduction by the author.


Flappers and the New American Woman

Flappers and the New American Woman

Author: Catherine Gourley

Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 0822560607

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Examines the symbols that defined perceptions of women during the late 1910s and 1920s and how they changed women's role in society.