America in the Twenties and Thirties : : The Olympian Age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt / / Sean Dennis Cashman.
In this, the third volume of an interdisciplinary history of the United States since the Civil War, Sean Dennis Cashman provides a comprehensive review of politics and economics from the tawdry affluence of the 1920s throught the searing tragedy of the Great Depression to the achievements of the New...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1989] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 1989 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Driving Ambition: The Continuing Revolutions in Transportation
- 2. The 1920s: An American Dream That Became a Nightmare
- 3. The Incomplete Politics of the Republican Ascendancy
- 4. Snow in Harvest: The Onset of the Great Depression
- 5. Happy Days Are Here Again: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Early New Deal
- 6. Stormy Weather: The Later New Deal
- 7. A House Divided: Workers, Labor, and Ethnic Groups
- 8. What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue? Black America
- 9. Sounds Impossible: The Golden Age of Radio
- 10. Seeing Is Deceiving: Hollywood and the Movies
- 11. Requiem, but No Peace: The Lost Generation and the Arts
- 12. Artistic License
- 13. New Horizons, Closed Frontiers: America in World Affairs After 1920
- 14. "Who Is This Hitler, and What Does He Want?" Isolation and Intervention
- Sources
- Bibliography
- Index