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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 brings a fresh interpretation to a dramatic, important, and misunderstood decade. As her lively work makes clear, changing values brought an end to the repressive Victorian era; urban liberalism emerged; the federal bureaucracy was expanded; pluralism became increasingly important to America's heterogeneous society; and different religious, ethnic, and cultural groups encountered the homogenizing force of a powerful mass-consumer culture. "The Modern Temper "brings these many developments into sharp focus.

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• Full title: The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
• Author: Lynn Dumenil, Dumenil, Eric Foner
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9780809015665
• ISBN: 0809015668
• ID: 11530194
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
• Weight: 340 g
• Dimensions: 206 × 137 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: June 1995

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