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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Only yesterday	Frederick Lewis Allen	A social history of the United States during the "roaring twenties." Examines American individualism and the decade that they knew Mah Jong and Mencken, Couéism and Coolidge, Listerine and Lindbergh…	OL1212453W
The decade that roared	Linda Jacobs Altman	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.	OL14865555W
The crisis of the old order, 1919-1933	Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.	This book, first in a Pulitzer Prize winning trilogy, describes the conditions (economic, socio-political, etc.) that led to the Great Depression & the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. Schl…	OL15123194W
One hundred percent American	Thomas R. Pegram	In the 1920s, a revived Ku Klux Klan burst into prominence as a self-styled defender of American values, a magnet for white Protestant community formation, and a would-be force in state and national …	OL15917268W
America between the wars, 1919-1941	David Welky	"With the Great Depression, the growth of a consumerist mass culture, the reshaping of government under Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, and intense debates over race and the role of women, the 22 year…	OL16540357W
The 1930s (1930-1939)	Michael Shally-Jensen, editor	Defining Documents offers a broad range of historical documents on important authors and subjects in American history, with primary source documents, in-depth analysis, and comprehensive lesson plans…	OL17099739W
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age	Alison Morretta	Examines the major works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, with a primary focus on the 1920s and how it affected his writing.	OL17933820W
America in the 1920s	Edmund Lindop	Outlines life in the United States in the 1920s, including Prohibition, the stock market crash, and advances in technology and entertainment such as the first radios and first talking movies.	OL1851299W
The Great Depression	Steven Otfinoski	Presents information about the Great Depression that left millions of Americans without jobs, including how people struggled to make a living in a time of high unemployment and how the government tri…	OL19747267W
Freedom from fear	David M. Kennedy	Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prev…	OL1997094W
Over here	David M. Kennedy	Chronicles the years of World War I and discusses the impact of World War I on American society, including workers, women, and blacks.	OL1997095W
The forgotten man	Amity Shlaes	This imaginative illustrated edition brings to life one of the most devastating periods in our nation's history--the Great Depression--through the lives of American people, from politicians and worke…	OL19982184W
Kids during the Great Depression	Lisa A. Wroble	Discusses the social and economic climate of the Great Depression as it related to the life and daily activities of children.	OL2619307W
Flapper	Joshua Zeitz	Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necke…	OL5831952W
Killer 'cane	Robert Mykle	"On September 16, 1928, after a murderous journey through the Caribbean and the Bahamas, a category 5 hurricane smashed into Palm Beach, Florida, leaving nearly 2,400 corpses in its wake. It remains …	OL5951594W
Brother, can you spare a dime?	Milton Meltzer	American's years of hardship from the stock market crash to the new deal	OL78969W