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The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
Contributor(s): Dumenil, Lynn (Author)
ISBN: 0809015668     ISBN-13: 9780809015665
Publisher: Hill & Wang
OUR PRICE:   $18.00  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 1995
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Annotation: When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920's, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movie stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover--and of Black Friday, October 29, 1929, when the plunging stock market ushered in the great depression. Lynn Dumenil brings a fresh interpretation to a dramatic, important, and misunderstood decade.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - 20th Century
- History | Social History
Dewey: 973.915
LCCN: 94047198
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.75 lbs) 368 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover--and of Black Friday, October 29, 1929, when the plunging stock market ushered in the great depression.

But the 1920s were much more. Lynn Dumenil brings a fresh interpretation to a dramatic, important, and misunderstood decade. As her lively work makes clear, changing values brought an end to the repressive Victorian era; urban liberalism emerged; the federal bureaucracy was expanded; pluralism became increasingly important to America's heterogeneous society; and different religious, ethnic, and cultural groups encountered the homogenizing force of a powerful mass-consumer culture. The Modern Temper brings these many developments into sharp focus.


Contributor Bio(s): Dumenil, Lynn: - Lynn Dumenil is Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History at Occidental College. Dumenil has written The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s and Freemasonry and American Culture: 1880-1930, and she is editor in chief of the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History.