The uncertain world of normalcy : the 1920s /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Pitman Pub. Corp., [1971]
Description:	xvi, 218 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Major issues in American history Major issues in American history.
Subject:	Nineteen twenties. Manners and customs Nineteen twenties United States -- History -- 1919-1933. United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945. United States Case studies History Case studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1830377

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Other authors / contributors:	Carter, Paul A. (Paul Allen), 1926-2016, compiler, editor.
Notes:	"A Jerome S. Ozer book." Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	American infatuation with the 1920s continues. As the time interval since that decade gets longer, interest grows greater. Were the Twenties a "side show," a quaint but irrelevant detour off the main road of history highlighted by The Lost Generation, Prohibition, The Golden Age of Sport, and The Jazz Age? Or were they, on the contrary, the first clear evidence of what we mean by "modern?" In this new study, Paul A. Carter brings together a collection of provocative opinion and material to provide fresh insight into the real nature of this vivid decade in American history. While many of the names in the book -- Dewey, DeVoto, Lewis, and Mumford -- are familiar, the selections chosen to represent their views and ideas are not taken from the same old stockpile. Professor Carter focuses on the issues that Americans in the Twenties had to deal with in their everyday lives. He avoids the usual generalizations that emphasize the bizarre and singular. The result for today's reader is a balanced account which is perhaps a step closer to life in the Twenties as it really was and not as we imagine it might have been--Back cover.
Other form:	Online version: Carter, Paul Allen, 1926- Uncertain world of normalcy: the 1920's. New York, Pitman Pub. Corp. [1971]

Table of Contents:

A selective chronology
Introduction
Part 1 : Private realities and public myths. Thunder on the left
The American famine / Michael Gold
A voice for the silent majority
Gentlemen, the President! : A study of Calvin Coolidge / Myron M. Stearns
The colossus of Willow Run
The Ford myth / Arthur Pound
An apology for urban politics
The Tammany monster / Charles Willis Thompson
Part 2 : But some are more equal than others. If you're black, go back
Mrs. DePriest drinks tea / W.E. Burghardt Du Bois
A Nuremberg law for America
Higher mental and physical standards for immigrants / Robert DeC. Ward
The college and mass culture
English A / Bernard DeVoto
The revolution in learning
Progressive education and the science of education / John Dewey
Part 3 : Faith of our fathers : living still? The travail of religious liberalism
Why we are silent : the problem facing young ministers / Allan A. Hunter
The old-time religion in suburbia
The son of a fundamentalist prophet / Granville Hicks
Prohibition and the general welfare
Soft morals / Barton W. Currie
Part 4 : An assembly-line civilization? The Kennicotts and Calvin Coolidge
Main Street's been paved! / Sinclair Lewis
A newsman's journey into America
Not quite standardized yet / Duncan Aikman
Toward a humane society
Machinery and the modern style / Lewis Mumford
Part 5 : The Twenties interpret the future. The burden of urban civilization
The terrible super-city / from The Commonweal
A preview of Armageddon
That notorious next war / Roland Hugins
Bibliographical essay.

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