The Roaring Twenties

Nonfiction, History, Modern, 20th Century, Americas, United States
Cover of the book The Roaring Twenties by Edmund O. Stillman, New Word City, Inc.
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Edmund O. Stillman ISBN: 9781612308982
Publisher: New Word City, Inc. Publication: February 15, 2016
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Edmund O. Stillman
ISBN: 9781612308982
Publisher: New Word City, Inc.
Publication: February 15, 2016
Imprint:
Language: English
No decade in American history has roared as loudly as the 1920s. For two centuries, the United States had lived in happy isolation from international issues. Then it was drawn into World War I. Although America was still fundamentally a provincial society, by the end of the war and the opening of the new decade, most Americans understood that a new era lay before the country. Despite Prohibition, it was an intoxicating decade, populated with characters as varied as Clarence Darrow, Henry Ford, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Lindbergh, Woodrow Wilson - and flappers. It was a time when ideas about love, public decorum, dress, and speech were changing. It was a time of cultivation of the new, shocking, and sometimes, according to the standards of the previous decade, vulgar: the stocking rolled below the knee, four-letter words in the mouths of debutantes, and speakeasies. All of these details, along with the economic collapse that ended the decade and sparked the Great Depression, are captured in this vivid chronicle by noted historian Edmund O. Stillman.
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
No decade in American history has roared as loudly as the 1920s. For two centuries, the United States had lived in happy isolation from international issues. Then it was drawn into World War I. Although America was still fundamentally a provincial society, by the end of the war and the opening of the new decade, most Americans understood that a new era lay before the country. Despite Prohibition, it was an intoxicating decade, populated with characters as varied as Clarence Darrow, Henry Ford, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Lindbergh, Woodrow Wilson - and flappers. It was a time when ideas about love, public decorum, dress, and speech were changing. It was a time of cultivation of the new, shocking, and sometimes, according to the standards of the previous decade, vulgar: the stocking rolled below the knee, four-letter words in the mouths of debutantes, and speakeasies. All of these details, along with the economic collapse that ended the decade and sparked the Great Depression, are captured in this vivid chronicle by noted historian Edmund O. Stillman.

More books from New Word City, Inc.

Cover of the book The Vikings: Pioneers in the Land of Ice by Edmund O. Stillman
Cover of the book French and Indian War by Edmund O. Stillman
Cover of the book Renaissance Milan by Edmund O. Stillman
Cover of the book The Vikings: Conquering the Wind and Waves by Edmund O. Stillman
Cover of the book Maximilian I by Edmund O. Stillman
Cover of the book Point of Honor by Edmund O. Stillman
Cover of the book Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Cynic by Edmund O. Stillman
Cover of the book The Writers by Edmund O. Stillman
Cover of the book American Heritage History of World War I by Edmund O. Stillman
Cover of the book Oprah (Brand) Renew by Edmund O. Stillman
Cover of the book Top Drawer: American High Society from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties by Edmund O. Stillman
Cover of the book Galileo Recants by Edmund O. Stillman
Cover of the book Loyalties: A Novel of World War II by Edmund O. Stillman
Cover of the book How to Build Customer Confidence by Edmund O. Stillman
Cover of the book George Washington's First Love by Edmund O. Stillman
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy