Only yesterday : an informal history of the 1920's / Frederick Lewis Allen.

By:

Allen, Frederick Lewis, 1890-1954

Material type:

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2010.Edition: First Harper Perennial modern classics editionDescription: x, 338 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780060956653
0060956658

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DDC classification:

973.9

LOC classification:

002 E 784 A425o 2010

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Contents:

Preface 1: Prelude: May, 1919 2: Back to normalcy 3: Big red scare 4: America convalescent 5: Revolution in manners and morals 6: Harding and the scandals 7: Coolidge prosperity 8: Ballyhoo years 9: Revolt of the highbrows 10: Alcohol and Al Capone 11: Home, sweet Florida 12: Big bull market 13: Crash! 14: Aftermath: 1930-31 Appendix: Sources and obligations Index

Summary: Overview: Prohibition. Al Capone. The President Harding scandals. The revolution of manners and morals, Black Tuesday. These are only an inkling of the events and figures characterizing the wild, tumultuous era that was the Roaring Twenties. Originally published in 1931, Only Yesterday traces the rise of post-World War I prosperity up to the Wall Street crash of 1929 against the colorful backdrop of flappers, speakeasies, the first radio, and the scandalous rise of skirt hemlines. Hailed as an instant classic, this is Frederick Lewis Allen's vivid and definitive account of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating decades, chronicling a time of both joy and terror-when dizzying highs were quickly succeeded by heartbreaking lows

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Recursos Regionales	Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso)	002 E 784 A425o 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	00000192976

Originally published: Harper & Row, 1931.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface
1: Prelude: May, 1919
2: Back to normalcy
3: Big red scare
4: America convalescent
5: Revolution in manners and morals
6: Harding and the scandals
7: Coolidge prosperity
8: Ballyhoo years
9: Revolt of the highbrows
10: Alcohol and Al Capone
11: Home, sweet Florida
12: Big bull market
13: Crash!
14: Aftermath: 1930-31
Appendix: Sources and obligations
Index

Overview: Prohibition. Al Capone. The President Harding scandals. The revolution of manners and morals, Black Tuesday. These are only an inkling of the events and figures characterizing the wild, tumultuous era that was the Roaring Twenties. Originally published in 1931, Only Yesterday traces the rise of post-World War I prosperity up to the Wall Street crash of 1929 against the colorful backdrop of flappers, speakeasies, the first radio, and the scandalous rise of skirt hemlines. Hailed as an instant classic, this is Frederick Lewis Allen's vivid and definitive account of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating decades, chronicling a time of both joy and terror-when dizzying highs were quickly succeeded by heartbreaking lows

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