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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... read more
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People edit
- Warren G. Harding: Add a description of this character.
- Woodrow Wilson
- Calvin Coolidge
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Al Smith
- Harry M. Daugherty
- Herbert Hoover
- Charles Lindbergh
- Zelda Fitzgerald
- Loeb
- Dempsey
- Samuel Insull
- Leopold
- Aimee
- Marion
- Scott Fitzgerald
- Margaret Sanger
- Al Capone
- Clarence Darrow
- Hemingway
- Ruth
- William Jennings Bryan
- Mitchell
- Stephenson
- Henry Mencken
- Durant
- O'neill
- Winchell
- Palmer
- Robert M. La Follette
- Walter Lippmann
- Doheny
- William Gibbs McAdoo
- Grace Coolidge
- Bertie
- Marcus Garvey
- Albert B. Fall
- Howe
- Thomas J. Walsh
- Davis
- Armstrong
Setting & Locations edit
- United States
- America
- Chicago
- White House
- Washington
- Paris
- New York City
- Europe
- France
- Florida
- Wall Street
- Ohio
- Germany
- Boston
- Hollywood
- Detroit
- Harlem
- California
- Massachusetts
- Indiana
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Japan
- Atlanta
- Russia
- Atlantic
- Baltimore
- London
- Texas
- Britain
- Northampton
- Italy
- Middletown
- New England
- China
- Klan
- Michigan
- Pennsylvania
- New Jersey
- Los Angeles
- Dayton
- Canada
- Charleston
- San Francisco
- Alabama
- Mississippi
- Manhattan
- Illinois
- Mexico
- Philadelphia
First Sentence edit
To mention the 1920s in America immediately conjures up such personalities and events as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Prohibition, the Charleston, flappers, speakeasies, "Hello, Sucker!" the Wall Street boom, and the Great Crash.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Nathan Miller (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Scribner
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0684852950
Page Count: 480
Publisher: Scribner
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0684852950
Page Count: 480
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 973.915
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century › 1900s-1920s
- Books › History › World
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