The roaring twenties / Stuart A. Kallen, book editor
- Published:
- San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, [2002]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2002
- Physical Description:
- 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Kallen, Stuart A., 1955-
- Series:
- Contents:
- AN ECONOMIC BOOM: Business: the new religion / Edward Earle Purinton -- Gambling on Wall Street / Fred C. Kelly -- Florida land boom and bust / A. M. Sakolski -- AN UNEQUAL SOCIETY: Living on thirteen dollars a week / Paul Blanshard -- Hard times at the Ford plant / Edmund Wilson -- The Attorney General denounces "Reds" / A. Mitchell Palmer -- Tne Ku Klux Klan takes Indiana / William E. Wilson -- Black fundamentalism in Harlem / Marcus Garvey -- FORBIDDEN ALCOHOL: Selling bootleg liquor in New York City / Charlie Berns -- Memoir of Eliot Ness, Prohibition Agent / Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley -- Henry Ford promotes prohibition / Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther -- ROARING GOOD TIMES: Flappers, fashion, and a new morality / Frederick Lewis Allen -- A chance encounter with a flapper / Ben Hecht -- The Jumpin', jivin' jazz life / Cab Calloway and Bryant Rollins -- FADS AND FANCY: The glamour and vulgarity of Hollywood / R. E. Sherwood -- Lessons learned from the movies / Anonymous -- Lucky Lindy lands in Paris / Charles A. Lindbergh -- Flagpole sitting / Frederick Nelson -- The thrill of radio / Graham McNamee -- WALL STREET GOES BUST: The day the bottom dropped out / Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts -- Business leaders react to the Crash / William Starr Myers and Walter H. Newton.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 0737708859 (lib. : alk. paper)
0737708840 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-214) and index.
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