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New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America
New World Coming The 1920s and the Making of Modern America
Author: Nathan Miller
The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination-from jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe Ruth, and Charles Lindbergh to the fight for women's right to vote, racial injustice, and the birth of organized crime. Nathan Miller has penned the ultimate introduction to the era. Publishers W...  more »calls it "an excellent chronicle of that turbulent, troubled, and tempestuous decade," and Jonathan Yardley's Washington Post review proclaimed this the new classic history of the 1920s, replacing Frederick Lewis Allen's celebrated account. Using the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a backdrop, Miller describes the world of Calvin Coolidge, H. L. Mencken, Woodrow Wilson, and the Red Scare in extraordinarily accessible (and frequently witty) writing, New World Coming is destined to become the book we all turn to, to recall one of the most beloved eras in American history.
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ISBN-13: 9780306813795
ISBN-10: 0306813793
Publication Date: 8/2004
Pages: 433
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Publisher: Da Capo Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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