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The culture of the twenties

Title
The culture of the twenties / edited by Loren Baritz.
Publication
Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, [1970]

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Additional Authors
Baritz, Loren, 1928-
Description
lxi, 436 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
Summary
The boisterous period in American history that produced the Charleston and Charles Lindbergh, surrealistic art and gangland-style murder was a period of upheaval, of fundamental change in American life--in politics, business, religion, the arts, and in living. In this anthology, the authors, politicians, preachers, and eccentrics speak for themselves: from Walter Lippmann to Anita Loos, from Bartolomeo Vanzetti to Joseph Wood Krutch, from Herbert Hoover to F. Scott Fitzgerald, here are the voices of the fools and the heroes of a wanton but innocent era. This collection reveals the roots of many of today's most hotly debated issues, for the twenties did not settle problems and disagreements concerning the human spirit versus technology, flag-waving patriotism versus international responsibility, puritanical inhibition versus flapper freedom, and many other conflicts of the spirit and mind. Rather, the people of the twenties first squarely faced such questions and in doing so "staggered into modernity."--Publisher description.
Series Statement
The American heritage series, 83
Uniform Title
American heritage series (New York, N.Y.) ; no. 83.
Subject
  • 1918-1945
  • Geschichte 1920-1929
  • Geschichte 1920-1930
  • Nineteen twenties
  • Civilization
  • Nineteen twenties
  • Geschichte
  • Kultur
  • Literatur
  • Zivilisation
  • United States > Civilization > 1918-1945
  • United States
  • USA
Genre/Form
  • Anthologie
  • Aufsatzsammlung
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. lvii-lxi.
Contents
War : the disillusioned -- Political fundamentalism -- Religious fundamentalism -- The business of America -- The younger generation -- The writers -- The social critics -- Technology.
ISBN
  • 0672601389
  • 9780672601385
LCCN
69014821
OCLC
  • ocm00067551
  • 67551
  • SCSB-9533898
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library