20s in America 2e

by Paul Allen Carter and Paul A. Carter

Book Overview

A principal theme of the 1920s was "paradox," and Professor Carter explains the tensions that existed between city and country, progress and nostalgia for the past, progressive attitudes and the persistence of bigotry. Carter also provides incisive reevaluations of some archetypal figures of the era, such as Coolidge, Lindbergh, and Hemingway, and suggests new ways of considering events and developments such as jazz, popular sports, the Scopes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882957171
• ISBN13: 9780882957173
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"