The Decade That Roared

Author : Linda Jacobs Altman
Publisher : Twenty First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780805041330
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Decade That Roared written by Linda Jacobs Altman and published by Twenty First Century Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the social conditions of the decade during which prohibition was in effect, the results of the legislation, and its failure to preserve traditional values.

Author : Eric Burns
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1605987735
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1920 written by Eric Burns and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roaring Twenties is the only decade in American history with a widely-applied nickname, and our fascination with this era continues. But how did this surge of innovation and cultural milestones emerge out of the ashes of The Great War? No one has yet written a book about the decade’s beginning.Acclaimed author Eric Burns investigates the year of 1920, not only a crucial twelve-month period of its own, but one that foretold the future, foreshadow the rest of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st. Burns sets the record straight about this most misunderstood and iconic of periods. Despite being the first full year of armistice, 1920 was not, in fact, a peaceful time—it contained the greatest act of terrorism in American history to date. And while 1920 is thought of as staring a prosperous era, for most people, life had never been more unaffordable. Meanwhile, African Americans were putting their stamp on culture and though people today imagine the frivolous image of the flapper dancing the night away, the truth was that a new power had been bestowed on women, and it had nothing to do with the dance floor . . . From prohibition to immigration, the birth of jazz, the rise of expatriate literature, and the original Ponzi scheme, 1920 was truly a year like no other.

Author : Eric Burns
Publisher : Thorndike Press
ISBN 13 : 9781410481849
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1920 written by Eric Burns and published by Thorndike Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American decade known as "The Roaring Twenties" continues to hold our collective fascination. But how did this surge of innovation and cultural milestones emerge from the ashes of The Great War? Eric Burns examines the crucial year of 1920, the first full year of armistice. From prohibition to immigration, the vote for women, the birth of jazz, the rise of expatriate literature, and the original Ponzi scheme, 1920 was a year like no other.

Author : Bettina Miller
Publisher : Reiman Media Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Flappers to Flivvers-- written by Bettina Miller and published by Reiman Media Group. This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charged with the pep of changing times, it was an era of real heroes and reckless daredevils, with guys and gals kicking up their heels - all for a good time!.

Author : Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1920's, the Decade that Roared written by Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Blanchard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780887555817
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Diminished Roar written by Jim Blanchard and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The third instalment in Jim Blanchard’s popular history of early Winnipeg, 'A Diminished Roar' presents a city in the midst of enormous change. Once the fastest growing city in Canada, by 1920 Winnipeg was losing its dominant position in western Canada. As the decade began, Winnipeggers were reeling from the chaos of the Great War and the influenza pandemic. But it was the divisions exposed by the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike which left the deepest marks. As Winnipeg wrestled with its changing fortunes, its citizens looked for new ways to imagine the city’s future and identity. Beginning with the opening of the magnificent new provincial legislature building in 1920, A Diminished Roar guides readers through this decade of political and social turmoil. At City Hall, two very different politicians dominated the scene. Winnipeg’s first Labour mayor, S.J. Farmer, pushed for more public services. His rival, Ralph Webb, would act as the city’s chief 'booster' as mayor, encouraging U.S. tourists with the promise of 'snowballs and highballs.' Meanwhile, promoters tried to rekindle the city’s spirits with plans for new public projects, such as a grand boulevard through the middle of the city, a new amusement park, and the start of professional horse racing. In the midst of the Jazz Age, Winnipeg’s teenagers grappled with 'problems of the heart,' and social groups like the Gyro Club organized masked balls for the city’s elite."--

Author : Gloria Skurzynski
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0822575949
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweat and Blood written by Gloria Skurzynski and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of labor unions in the United States, including the first labor strike in Jamestown, the impact of the Great Depression on labor unions, and the challenges unions face today.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1920's written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edmund Stillman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781542384957
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roaring Twenties written by Edmund Stillman and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No decade in American history has roared as loudly as the 1920s. For two centuries, the United States had lived in happy isolation from international issues. Then it was drawn into World War I.Although America was still fundamentally a provincial society, by the end of the war and the opening of the new decade, most Americans understood that a new era lay before the country.Despite Prohibition, it was an intoxicating decade, populated with characters as varied as Clarence Darrow, Henry Ford, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Lindbergh, Woodrow Wilson - and flappers. It was a time when ideas about love, public decorum, dress, and speech were changing. It was a time of cultivation of the new, shocking, and sometimes, according to the standards of the previous decade, vulgar: the stocking rolled below the knee, four-letter words in the mouths of debutantes, and speakeasies. All of these details, along with the economic collapse that ended the decade and sparked the Great Depression, are captured in this vivid chronicle by noted historian Edmund O. Stillman.

Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476648123
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prohibition and Bootlegging in the American West written by Jeremy Agnew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prohibition was imposed by eager temperance movements organizers who sought to shape public behavior through alcoholic beverage control in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The success of reformers' efforts resulted in National Prohibition in America from 1920 to 1933, but it also resulted in a thriving illegal business in the manufacture and distribution of illegal liquor. The history of Prohibition and the resulting illegal drinking is frequently told through the lens of crime and violence in Chicago and other major East Coast cities. Often neglected are the effects of Prohibition on the Western part of the United States and how Westerners rose to the challenge of avoiding the consequences of illegal drinking. Illegal liquor was imported from abroad, made in stills using strange ingredients that were sometimes poisonous to the unlucky drinker. This history includes stories ranging from serious to quirky, and provides an entertaining account of how misguided efforts resulted in numerous unintended consequences.