Only yesterday An informal history of the nineteen-twenties
by Frederick Lewis Allen
- New York Harper Brothers 1931
- 370 p.
Includes Index
Prelude: May, 1919 -- Back to normalcy -- The big Red scare -- America convalescent -- The revolution in manners and morals -- Harding and the scandals -- Coolidge prosperity -- The ballyhoo years -- The revolt of the highbrows -- Alcohol and Al Capone -- Home, sweet Florida -- The big bull market -- Crash! -- Aftermath: 1930-31.
A social history of the United States during the "roaring twenties." Examines American individualism and the decade that they knew Mah Jong and Mencken, Couéism and Coolidge, Listerine and Lindbergh, as well as Capone, Ford, Babe Ruth, the Teapot Dome, and bathtub gin.