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This is an exhilarating portrait of the era of invention, glamour and excess from one of the brightest young stars of mainstream history writing.Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, the 1920s was a time of fear and hedonism. The decade glittered with... read more
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Organizations edit
- Ku Klux Klan: Add a description of this organization.
- The New Yorker
- The Stock Market
- United Negro Improvement Association
- Algonquin Round Table
- American Civil Liberties Union
- The "Lost Generation"
- NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
First Sentence edit
In early 1927, when Chicago's Beer Wars between rival gangs of bootleggers were at their peak, Al Capone invited a group of reporters to his heavily fortified home.
Table of Contents edit
List of Illustrations
Prologue
1. "You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake on Tea"
2. "The Rhythm of Life"
3. Femme Fatale
4. "Five and Ten Cent Lusts and Dreams"
5. "My God! How the Money Rolls In"
6. "The Business of America is Business"
7. Fear of the Foreign
8. The Ku Klux Klan Redux
9. In Exile
10. The New Yorker
11. "Yes, We Have No Bananas Today"
12. The Spirit of St. Louis
13. The Big Fight
14. Crash
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Lucy Moore (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc.
Country: United States
Publication Date: March 4, 2010
ISBN: 978-1590203132
Page Count: 400
Publisher: The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc.
Country: United States
Publication Date: March 4, 2010
ISBN: 978-1590203132
Page Count: 400
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: E784 .M65 2010
- Dewey: 973.91
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century
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