The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s

The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
ISBN-10
0809015668
ISBN-13
9780809015665
Category
History
Pages
351
Language
English
Published
1995-06-30
Publisher
Macmillan
Author
Lynn Dumenil

Description

Offers a broad view of American culture during the 1920s, discussing the changing values that ended the repressive Victorian era, the growing importance of pluralism in America's heterogeneous society, and the expansion of federal bureaucracy

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