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Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s
David Goldberg
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Paperback. "-from the foreword by Stanley I. Kutler Series: The American Moment. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
It was a decade of great heroes like Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh, and of passive leaders like Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. The exuberant freedom of flappers drinking bathtub gin and dancing the Charleston did little to counter such powers of oppression as the rapidly rising Ku Klux Klan. Only the fictional wealth of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby survived the stock market crash unscathed; by the end of the decade, the comic adventures of Charlie Chaplin's "little tramp" bore faint resemblance to the grim realities faced by countless destitute Americans. Too often, notes historian David Goldberg, the ... Read more
It was a decade of great heroes like Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh, and of passive leaders like Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. The exuberant freedom of flappers drinking bathtub gin and dancing the Charleston did little to counter such powers of oppression as the rapidly rising Ku Klux Klan. Only the fictional wealth of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby survived the stock market crash unscathed; by the end of the decade, the comic adventures of Charlie Chaplin's "little tramp" bore faint resemblance to the grim realities faced by countless destitute Americans. Too often, notes historian David Goldberg, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
The American Moment
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801860058
SKU
V9780801860058
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About David Goldberg
David J. Goldberg teaches history at Cleveland State University. He is the author of A Tale of Three Cities: Labor Protest and Organization in Paterson, Passaic, and Lawrence, 1916-1921.
Reviews for Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s
Provides a timely new look at the 1920s.
Joseph A. McCartin Journal of American History Discontented America is 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.
Kenneth J. Heineman Ohio History A special contemporary contribution to remind readers ... Read more
Joseph A. McCartin Journal of American History Discontented America is 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.
Kenneth J. Heineman Ohio History A special contemporary contribution to remind readers ... Read more