Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Jim Crow laws, the Model T Ford, and Madame Curie, all of these were part of this decade, a time when the United States was transformed from a rural country to an industrial power with booming cities. Stephen Feinstein describes the people, events, and ideas, from vaudeville theaters to the San Francisco earthquake, from teddy bears to the Great White Fleet, that made this time period one of the century's most interesting...