New World Coming: The 1920s And The Making Of Modern America
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2004-07-27
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0306813793
ISBN-13: 9780306813795
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 Weekly 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 celebrat...