The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s

Name: A Great, Heavy Work on an Important Era
Item: The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
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by Lynn Dumenil

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Lynn Dumenil's The Modern Temper provides a unique perspective into the American Jazz Age.

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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0809015668

ISBN13:9780809015665

Release Date:June 1995

Publisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

Length:368 Pages

Weight:0.86 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.4" x 8.1"

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20th Century Civilization & Culture History World

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A Great, Heavy Work on an Important Era

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 6 years ago

A profoundly integrative study of this American era. A thoughtful, well researched work. Must have edition.

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