Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

The roaring twenties / Edited by Phillip Margulies; Published by Bonnie Szumski; Managing Editor Scott Barbour - San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, c2004. - 267 p. ; 23 cm. - Turning points .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-260) and index.

The expansion of giant corporations and mass consumption / Donald R. McCoy --
The installment plan changes American values / Sharon Murphy --
The mass media promotes consumption as the solution for dissatisfied workers / Lynn Dumenil --
The automobile transforms America / Frederick Lewis Allen --
Growing cities provide the market for a consumer economy / Howard P. Chudacoff --
How prohibition became law / David E. Kyvig --
Prohibition contributed to the rise of organized crime / Michael E. Parrish --
The legacies of prohibition / Norman H. Clark --
The changing values of a new generation / Gilman M. Ostrander --
The "new feminism" of the 1920s / Lois W. Banner --
The impact of black migration on American culture / Gerald Early --
Greenwich Village challenged old ideas / Malcolm Cowley --
Machine-made goods become fashionable / Gary Dean Best --
The red scare leads to political repression / Stanley Coben --
The reemergence and fall of the Ku-Klux-Klan / David J. Goldberg --
The battle over the right to teach evolution / Page Smith --
Racism leads to new immigration restrictions / Thomas F. Gossett --
Speculation and government mismanagement led to the crash of 1929 / William E. Leuchtenburg --
Wall Street crashes / Edward Robb Ellis --
The aftermath of the crash / William K. Klingaman.

Examines key trends and events during the 1920s that affected the course of political and social history in the United States.

0737718099 (alk. paper) 0737718102 (pbk. : alk. paper)



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Nineteen twenties
Manners and customs


United States--Politics and government--1919-1933
United States--Social conditions--1918-1932
United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945

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