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The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
Lynn Dumenil
The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
Lynn Dumenil
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 cultural groups encountered the homogenizing force of a powerful mass-consumer culture. The Modern Temper brings these many developments into sharp focus.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | June 30, 1995 |
ISBN13 | 9780809015665 |
Publishers | Hill and Wang |
Pages | 352 |
Dimensions | 140 × 210 × 30 mm · 516 g |
Language | English |
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