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Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s

Paperback • 1999 • English

Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s

By David J. Goldberg

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About the book

Fra omslaget: 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 tram...Show more

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9780801860058

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s

Format

Paperback

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